Essays on Otherness

Introduction: Psychoanalysis and the Question of the Other; Chapter 1 The Unfinished Copernican Revolution; Chapter 2 A Short Treatise on the Unconscious; Chapter 3 The Drive and its Source-Object: Its Fate in the Transference1Laplanche’s title purposely echoes that of Freud’s 1915 paper, ‘Triebe und Triebschicksale’, which appears as ‘Instincts and their Vicissitudes’ in the Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (1915c), SE XIV, pp. 109–40, translator’s note].; Chapter 4 Implantation, Intromission; Chapter 5 Interpretation between Determinism and Hermeneutics: A Restatement of the Problem; Chapter 6 Seduction, Persecution, Revelation, Jean-Pierre Maïdani-Gérard; Chapter 7 Masochism and the General Theory of Seduction; Chapter 8 Transference: Its Provocation by the Analyst; Chapter 9 Time and the Other; Chapter 10 Notes on Afterwardsness1These ‘notes’ are based on a conversation between Jean Laplanche and Martin Stanton recorded in 1991. They appeared in Jean Laplanche: Seduction, Translation and the Drives, eds John Fletcher and Martin Stanton, London: Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1992, and have been added to and revised by Professor Laplanche for this volume (1998).;