Life and Death in Psychoanalysis

by Jean Laplanche

Book Overview

Most 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801827302
• ISBN13: 9780801827303
• Release Date: January 1976
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher