Language of Psycho-Analysis

ISBN-13: 9780393011050 / Angielski / Twarda / 1974 / 530 str.

J. LaPlanche; Jean LaPlanche; Donald Micholson-Smith

Opis

Sigmund Freud evolved his theories throughout his lifetime. This entailed many revisions and changes which he himself never tried to standardize rigidly into a definitive conceptual system. The need for some sort of a reliable guide which would spell out both the pattern of the evolution of Freud's thinking, as well as establish its inherent logic, was felt for a long time by both scholars and students of psychoanalysis. Drs. Laplanche and Pontalis of the Association Psychoanalytique de France succeeded admirably in providing a dictionary of Freud's concepts which is more than a compilation of mere definitions. After many years of creative and industrious research, they were able to give an authentic account of the evolution of each concept with pertinent supporting texts from Freud's own writing (in the Standard Edition translation), and thus have endowed us with an instrument for work and research which is characterized by its thoroughness, exactitude and lack of prejudice towards dogma.

O autorze

J.-B. Pontalis, geb. 1924, Philosoph und Psychoanalytiker, ehemaliger Präsident der Association psychanalytique de France, gibt mehrere Buchreihen zur Psychoanalyse heraus. Jean Laplanche besuchte die Ecole normale supérieure und studierte Philosophie. Er begann 1947 eine Analyse bei Jacques Lacan und studierte anschließend Medizin. Nach seinem Bruch mit Lacan 1964 gründete er mit anderen die Association psychanalytique de France. Er ist wissenschaftlicher Leiter der neuen Freud-Übersetzung ins Französische, die seit 1989 publiziert wird. 1995 erhielt er den Mary S. Sigourney Award.