Jean Laplanche

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1924 – 2012

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Who was Jean Laplanche?

Jean Laplanche was a French author, psychoanalyst and winemaker. Laplanche is best known for his work on psychosexual development and Sigmund Freud's seduction theory, and wrote more than a dozen books on psychoanalytic theory. The journal Radical Philosophy described him as "the most original and philosophically informed psychoanalytic theorist of his day."

From 1988 to his death, Laplanche was the scientific director of the German to French translation of Freud's complete works in the Presses Universitaires de France.

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Born
Jun 21, 1924
Paris
Nationality
  • France
Profession
Education
  • École Normale Supérieure
Died
May 6, 2012
Beaune

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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