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Jean Laplanche's Life & Death in Psychoanalysis

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

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Freud's Symbolism of Trauma

La Planche gives an example that I think is even better than Wolfman or rat man just because it's simpler. In the case of Emma which is again from the 1895 cases and very quickly Emma's eight goes into a store supposedly is sexually groped through her clothes but then comes back a few years later right after she's gone through puberty and sees to sees the guy that groped her and his co worker laughing and so it's the laughing that sets off that trauma of being sexually assaultedShe runs out of the store and in her anxiety she has these laughing faces she has this it's not even his face it's just a laughing face It's like we could say is you know

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