{"product_id":"life-and-death-in-psychoanalysis-paperback","title":"Life and Death in Psychoanalysis - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJean LaPlanche\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJeffrey Mehlman\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMost critics have come to terms with the contradictions in Freud's work by attempting to impose a unified system even at the cost of rejecting crucial metapyschological concepts such as the death wish. According to Jean Laplanche, \"such variations or variants deserve better than a choice in favor of one of the other: they require an interpretation and such as interpretation implies that, as is the case with the analysis of dreams, all the elements be juxtaposed so that nothing be eliminated, that the \u003ci\u003eeither\u003c\/i\u003e \/ \u003ci\u003eor\u003c\/i\u003e be retanslatedinto an \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a way that Freud plainly does not control, Laplanche argures, there are at work two different concepts corresponding to each of a series of crucial Freudian terms; in each of these conceptual pairs of one of the elements is solidary with a specific conceptual scheme and the other with a second one. The entire body of Freud's work, for Laplanche, is constituted as an elaborately structured polemical field in which two mutually exclusive schemes may be seen to be struggling to dominate a single terminological apparatus.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLife and Death in Psychoanalysis\u003c\/i\u003e is a painstakingly lucid inquiry into the interpretative consequences of the conceptual and terminological difficulties posed by Freud's texts. It is an uncannily precise delineation of the perverse rigor with which Freud's most virulent discoveries perpetually escape him-and are endlessly rediscovered.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJean Laplanche\u003c\/b\u003e, one of the most distinguished figures of French psychoanalysis, is the author of \u003ci\u003eHolderlin et la question du père\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eJeffrey Mehlman\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor of French at Boston University and author of \u003ci\u003eCataract: A Study of Diderot\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eRevolution and Repetition: Marx, Hugo, Balzac\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eA Stuctural Study of Autobiography: Proust, Sartre, Levi-Strauss.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.44 x 9.22 x 6.04 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 01, 1976\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47451617165490,"sku":"9780801827303","price":59.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/f20ed8eaa4e9e74396f6885d18fb68e9.webp?v=1778798140","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/life-and-death-in-psychoanalysis-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}