Essays on Otherness presents for the first time in English many of Laplanche's key essays and is the first book to provide an overview of his work.
Most recent collection of original essays by a leading psychoanalytic theorist
Most of the articles have not been published in English before
Topic related to current concerns with child sexual abuse and recovered memory syndrome
'Essays on Otherness offers the most original, philosophical sophisticated, and far-reaching critical reading of Freud's metapsychology since Lacan. Exegetically scrupulous and rigorously argued, these essays go straight to the heart of the psychoanalytical enterprise.' - Peter Osborne, Professor of Modern European Philosophy, Middlesex University
'[Laplanche's] philosophical and psychoanalytical studies are now becoming increasingly drawn upon by cultural theorists and critics, and this work is helped enormously by the publication of Essays on Otherness and the comprehensive and illuminating introduction by John Fletcher.' - New Formations