Posts tagged ‘Freudianism’

Jean Laplanche, 1924–2012

Forming new knots


by / RP 174 (Jul/Aug 2012)

Jean Laplanche, one of Europe’s most eminent and original psychoanalytic thinkers, died on 6 May, at the age of 87. His death brings to an end a remarkable intellectual career dedicated to the meticulous analysis and rigorous critical expansion of the Freudian discovery. Laplanche was born on 21 June 1924 to a family of wine [...]