Jean Laplanche: Seduction, Translation and the Drives : A Dossier (Ica Documents, 11)

Jean Laplanche is internationally renowned as a psychoanalyst, philosopher and translator of Freud. His work on primal fantasies and sexuality has been widely influential in film and cultural theory. is recent studies have radically reformulated the theory of the drives, the place of seduction and the "other" in psychic life. This is the first publication in English on Laplanche since his New Foundations in Psychoanalysis (1989). Centered on the ICA's international Laplanche conference (1990), this Document records live debates, seminars, an interview, and specially commissioned essays by authorities on his work. It also presents to the English reader for the first time Laplanche's most recent projects on a psychoanalytic philosophy of time and translation. Overview from back of the book