Exigent Psychoanalysis: The Interventions of Jean Laplanche

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Introduction: Innovation and deviation in psychoanalysis
	The \"self-reflective\" turn
	Introducing Jean Laplanche
	The road half-taken: two paths for psychoanalysis
	Reproblematization of the whole
	Psychoanalysis and the \"Sinai complex\"
	\"Slipping the knife\" into psychoanalysis: Laplanche\'s approach to critique
	A third way: Laplanche\'s interventions in contemporary theory
	Laplanche\'s new foundations for psychoanalysis: translation, sexuality, seduction
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 1: Metapsychology – Mytho-symbolic versus metapsychology
	My \"witch\": the history of metapsychology
	Attempts to revise scientific foundations
	Freud\'s relationship to science
	The exigency of psychoanalysis
	Metapsychology versus the sexual theories of children
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 2: Sexuality - Laplanche\'s theory of the unconscious
	Atavism vs. dynamism
	Part I. The fantasy vs. reality debate
	Part II. Critique of the traditional unconscious
	Critique of the progressive unconscious
	Part III. The realism of the unconscious: a third way
	Unconscious content
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 3: Seduction - Laplanche\'s theory of psychic structure
	Pathogenesis and psychic structure
	Drive vs. attachment
	The \"leaning-on\" hypothesis
	Traditional model of psychic structure
	Progressive model of psychic structure
	General theory of seduction
	Between determinism and hermeneutics
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 4: Translation - Laplanche\'s theory of motivation
	The need for \"new foundations\"
	Affect in psychoanalysis: a history of the problem
	Affect vs. unconscious: a genealogy of the problem
	Motivation and drive: critique of the traditionalist view
	Motivation and attachment: critique of the progressive view
	Notes
	Bibliography
Index