Exigent Psychoanalysis: The Interventions of Jean Laplanche

Exigent Psychoanalysis: The Interventions of Jean Laplanche is a book that explores the contemporary psychoanalytic field through the lens of Jean Laplanche, focusing on key issues and the tension between Freudian and Relational paradigms. It offers a bold exploration of Laplanche's work and integrates cutting-edge research on Affect theory and sexuality to demonstrate the potential for fieldwide innovation. The book is of interest to established and emerging clinicians and aims to address a broad spectrum of theoretical positions.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 190 pages
Publication date: 17 August 2021
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Jean Laplanche's Exigent Psychoanalysis: The Interventions offers a daring exploration of the contemporary psychoanalytic field, focusing on key issues through the lens of one of the most exacting and invigorating psychoanalytic theorists of this century. Deliberately taking an integrative approach that spans a vast range of psychoanalytic ideas, with particular focus on the enduring tension between Freudian and Relational paradigms, Ashtor demonstrates how a rigorous close reading of Laplanche's work can disrupt stale binaries and forge new possibilities for revolutionizing the foundations of psychoanalysis. Organized as pointed interventions on such topics as metapsychology, motivation, the unconscious, and psychic structure, Ashtor integrates cutting-edge research on Affect theory and sexuality to demonstrate the potential for field-wide innovation. Of interest to established and emerging clinicians alike and aimed at addressing a broad spectrum of theoretical positions, Exigent Psychoanalysis offers the first extensive clinical and theoretical study of Laplanche's work, thus facilitating a timely and cutting-edge intervention in contemporary psychoanalytic debates.

Weight: 314g
Dimension: 153 x 234 x 15 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032039770