Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour Jean Laplanche's Life & Death in Psychoanalysis
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Feb 12, 2023 A deep dive into Jean Laplanche’s reading of Freud, from primal scenes and childhood trauma to the way sexuality emerges through ordinary needs like feeding. The conversation also wanders through repression, sublimation, orgasm, and whether art can offer its own kind of immortality.
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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.