Essays on Otherness

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1、EssaysOnOthernessJeanLaplancheisoneofthemosttrenchantpsychoanalyticthinkersofourtime.TheseessaysinparticularclarifyanumberofthemesthathavenotyetbeenadequatelyintroducedtoanEnglish-speakingaudience.JudithButler,UniversityofCalifornia,BerkeleyEssaysOnOthernessoffersthemostorig

2、inal,philosophicallysophisticated,andfar-reachingcriticalreadingofFreud’smetapsychologysinceLacan.Exegeticallyscrupulousandrigorouslyargued,theseessaysgostraighttotheheartofthepsychoanalyticalenterprise.PeterOsborne,ProfessorofModernEuropeanPhilosophy,MiddlesexUniversityEssa

3、ysOnOthernesspresents,forthefirsttimeinEnglish,akeyselectionfromtherecentworkofJeanLaplanche.Heisoneofthemostimportanttheoristsofcontemporarypsychoanalysis.Hisworktakesthedecenteringofthesubjectbeyondthefamiliarparametersofpost-structuralisttheorytowardsanewunderstandingofot

4、hernessintheformationofhumansubjectivity.ThecentralthemeofEssaysOnOthernessistheroleoftheotherinpsychiclife.SinceFreud’snewlycontroversialabandonmentofhisseductiontheoryin1897,psychoanalysishasgivenprioritytotheinnatedevelopmentprogramoftheindividualovertheintersubjectiverel

5、ationtotheotherperson.LaplanchereturnstoandreformulatesFreud’sabandonedseductiontheoryasageneraltheoryofprimalseduction:aseductionintrinsictotheeverydayrelationsofchildcareandnurturing.EssaysOnOthernessreformulatessomeofthecentralcategoriesofpsychoanalysisleadingtoanewunders

6、tandingoftheanalyticsituation,oftheroleofseductionandtransferenceinculturalproduction,andanewpsychoanalytictheoryofhumantime.Itsimplicationswilltransformthecurrentcontroversiesoverrecoveredmemoryandtheafter-effectsoftraumaandsexualabuse.Theessaysgatheredtogetherhereforthefir

7、sttimeareindispensableiireadingforallthoseconcernedwiththeimplicationsofcontemporarydevelopmentsinpsychoanalysis.JeanLaplancheisProfessorEmeritusofPsychoanalysisattheUniversityofParis,(VII).iiiWarwickStudiesinEuropeanPhilosophyEditedbyAndrewBenjaminProfessorofPhilosophy,Univ

8、ersityofWarwickThisseriespresentsthebestandmostoriginalworkbeingdonewithint