Since the death of Jacques Lacan, Jean Laplanche is now considered to be one of the worlds foremost psychoanalytic thinkers. In spite of the influence of his work over the last thirty years, remarkably little has been available in English. Essays On Otherness presents for the first time in English many of Laplanche's key essays and is the first book to provide an overview of his thinking. It offers an introduction to many of the key themes that characterise his work: seduction, persecution, revelation, masochism, transference and mourning. Such themes have been increasingly both in psychoanalytic thought and in continental philosophy, social and cultural theory, and literature making Essays On Otherness indispensable reading for all those concerned with the implications of psychoanalytic theory today.

Author: Jean LaPlanche
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 12/10/1998
Series: Warwick Studies in European Philosophy
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 9.24h x 6.36w x 0.86d
ISBN: 9780415131087

About the Author
Jean Laplanche is Professor Emeritus of Psychoanalysis at the University of Paris, (VII).