{"product_id":"laplanche-an-introduction-9781942254034","title":"Laplanche: an introduction","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1997, the Presses Universitaires de France commissioned Dominique\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eScarfone for another book for their series Psychanalystes d'aujourd'hui. The\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eresult was Jean Laplanche, now available in Dorothée Bonnigal-Katz's\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebrilliantly clear English translation as \"Laplanche: an introduction.\" More than\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ean overview of Laplanche's career, Scarfone's text presents an unparalleled\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003einsight into the mechanisms, provocations, and spectacular theoretical\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eachievements of Laplanche's work, which has been increasingly recognized\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eas integral to Francophone-and more recently, Anglophone-psychoanalytic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epractice and theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume brings together Scarfone's book with two representative works\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof Laplanche's writing: his introduction to the French translation of Freud's\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeyond the Pleasure Principle, perhaps the last major work completed before\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehis death in 2012; and Fantasme Originaire, Fantasmes des Origines, Origines\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edu Fantasme, the classic 1964 essay written in collaboration with J.-B.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePontalis, in a new translation by Jonathan House. Finally, this volume includes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ea complete bibliography of Laplanche's work, in English and in French.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJean Laplanche was described by Radical Philosophy as \"the most original\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand philosophically informed psychoanalytic theorist of his day.\" Studying\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ephilosophy under Hyppolite, Bachelard, and Merleau-Ponty, he became an\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eactive member of the French Resistance under the Vichy regime. Under the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003einfluence (and treatment) of Jacques Lacan, Laplanche came to earn a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edoctorate in medicine and was certified as a psychoanalyst. He eventually\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebroke ties with Lacan and began regularly publishing influential contributions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto psychoanalytic theory, his first volume appearing in 1961. In 1967 he\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epublished, with his colleague J.-B. Pontalis, the celebrated encyclopaedia The\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLanguage of Psychoanalysis. Member of the International Psychoanalytic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAssociation, co-founder of the Association Psychanalytique de France, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eemeritus professor and founder of the Center for Psychoanalytic Research at\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe Université de Paris VII, and assistant professor at the Sorbonne, he also\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eoversaw, as scientific director, the translation of Freud's complete oeuvre into\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrench for the Presses Universitaires de France.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Unconscious in Translation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50526285234450,"sku":"9781942254034","price":35.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d34c5c52-16e8-4915-867b-dd90339a6de6.jpg?v=1731267904","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/laplanche-an-introduction-9781942254034","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}