Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour Jean Laplanche's Life & Death in Psychoanalysis
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Feb 12, 2023 AI Snips
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Laplanche: Faithful Yet Original Freud Reader
- Jean Laplanche combines faithful reading of Freud with Lacanian diagrammatic moves and original revisions.
- His Language of Psychoanalysis (1967) functions like a concordance and study guide for psychoanalytic concepts.
Drive Vs Instinct: A Key Distinction
- Laplanche distinguishes instinct (ethological, hereditary patterns) from drive (sexual, denatured form).
- He argues the sexual drive is the proper drive, distinct from instinctual functions.
Helplessness Makes Human Sexuality Messy
- Human sexuality is messy because infants are born prematurely psychically and depend on others, creating a need for 'propping' structures.
- Laplanche stresses helplessness and external embedding of unconscious sexual signifiers from adults.