Essays on Otherness

Jean Laplanche is an incisive and important of contemporary psychoanalytic theorists. In spite of the influence of his work over the last 30 years, until recently little of his work has been available in English. This text presents in English many of Laplanche's key essays and also provides an overview of his work. It makes available Laplanche's work on the key psychoanalytic themes of: association, seduction, persecution, revelation, masochism, transference and mourning. Such themes are increasingly influential in the vocabularies of philosophy, social theory, literature, and cultural theory, which should make the work of interest for all those concerned with the implications of psychoanalytic theory today.

'Essays on Otherness offers the most original, philosophical sophisticated, and far-reaching critical reading of Freud's metapsychology since Lacan. Exegetically scrupulous and rigorously argued, these essays go straight to the heart of the psychoanalytical enterprise.' - Peter Osborne, Professor of Modern European Philosophy, Middlesex University

'[Laplanche's] philosophical and psychoanalytical studies are now becoming increasingly drawn upon by cultural theorists and critics, and this work is helped enormously by the publication of Essays on Otherness and the comprehensive and illuminating introduction by John Fletcher.' - New Formations

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

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.

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