Between Seduction and Inspiration

For this volume Jean Laplanche selected his principal writings from 1992 to 1998, a period in which he demonstrated the power and range of his psychoanalytic and philosophical inquiry, including his ‘return to Freud’ and his General Theory of Seduction. Some of the essays are here published in English translation for the first time. Forty years after his masterful translation of Laplanche’s Life and Death in Psychoanalysis, Jeffrey Mehlman once again provides an elegant and insightful translation, which preserves the clarity and rigor of Laplanche’s essays. Table of Contents: 1. Seduction, Persecution, Revelation (1992) 2. Notes on apres-coup (1992) 3. A Brief Treatise on the Unconscious (1993) 4. The Training Analysis: A Psychoanalysis “on Command” (1989/1999) 5. Forces at Play in Psychical Conflict (1994) 6. Responsibility and Response (1994) 7. Psychoanalysis in the Scientific Community (1995) 8. The So-called Death Drive: A Sexual Drive (1997) 9. Goals of the Psychoanalytic Process (1996) 10. Psychoanalysis as Antihermeneutics (1994) 11. Psychoanalysis: Myths and Theory (1996) 12. Narrativity and Hermeneutics: A Few Propositions (1998) 13. Sublimation and/or Inspiration (1999)