Life and Death in Psychoanalysis — Jean Laplanche

Title: Life and Death in Psychoanalysis — Jean Laplanche

Author: Jean Laplanche

Translator: Jeffrey Mehlman

Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press

Format: Hardcover with dust jacket

Edition: First English-language edition, 1976. Originally published in French in 1970 as Vie et mort en psychanalyse.

ISBN: 0801816378 / 9780801816376

Condition: Second-hand. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket has creasing, rubbing, edge wear, marks, discolouration and general age wear. Pages show light age toning and foxing/spotting. Previous owner/ex-libris stamps to the front endpaper. Please see photos for the exact copy available.

Life and Death in Psychoanalysis is Jean Laplanche’s influential study of Freud, sexuality, conflict, the ego, narcissism and the death drive. Translated and introduced by Jeffrey Mehlman, the book examines some of the central tensions in psychoanalytic theory and offers a major French psychoanalytic reading of Freud.