Laplanche's reconstruction of Freud's other-centered subject: The enigmatic signifier and its political uses

Article Abstract:

Freud's 'exigency and going astray' as defined in the essay of that name by Jean Laplanche are explored by tracing one major going-astray detected by Laplanche in Freud's thinking. It is argued that Laplanche's model of the enigmatic signifier can be extended past childhood as in the case of the US public who continue to accept the US president George W. Bush's misleading rhetoric.

United States, Psychoanalysts, Works, Laplanche, Jean

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Interpreting (with) Freud

Article Abstract:

An author's methodological purpose through his career and the factors that governed it are outlined. The critique of Jung and Ricoeur, and the exposition of the compulsion behind the writer's anti-hermeneutic approach to Freud are of particular interest.

Psychological literature, Translations and translating, Interpreting (with) Freud (Book)

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Exigency and going astray

Article Abstract:

A writer sets out two concepts that he believes define the major discursive axes of Freud's oeuvre. He re-elaborates the idea of 'exigency' in terms of his own reformulation of Freudian drive theory.

Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Hermeneutics

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