Laplanche: Whom and What We Have Lost by N. Szajnberg, MD, Managing Editor
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Jean Laplanche, a man as careful with words as a surgeon with scalpel, died this week. International Psychoanalysis.net will honor his life and work with three pieces: his 1991 “Is Psychoanalysis Curable” (courtesy of Jimmy Fisher); a classic translated by Jonathan House; and an interview.

In the “Curable,” piece below, Laplanche states that overusing psychoanalytic terms leads to ridicule; further, even in 1991, psychoanalysis was considered passé.

Yet, for Laplanche, psychoanalysis — the method — leads to lucidity and freedom. These are subversive and even revolutionary activities.

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A tribute to Jean Laplanche by Dominique Scarfone Translated by Jonathan House and Article on Primal Fantasy by Jean Laplanche
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For those interested, Laplanche’s Book Freud and the Sexual, Available Here.

A tribute to Jean Laplanche by Dominique Scarfone
(Translation: Jonathan House; French below):

Jean Laplanche died on May 6, 2012 just a few weeks before what would have been his 88th birthday. A philosopher (student of Jean Hippolyte, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Gaston Bachelard), a psychiatrist and a psychoanalyst, one of the great readers of Freud and translator of the just completed French edition of Freud’s complete works, he was, with Serge Leclaire, among the first Continue reading A tribute to Jean Laplanche by Dominique Scarfone Translated by Jonathan House and Article on Primal Fantasy by Jean Laplanche

Extracts from an interview with Jean Laplanche, interviewed by Alberto Luchetti
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Laplanche in this interview covers some of his basic and often controversial ideas, such as the “normative” seduction of infants by their parents’ (infantile) sexuality. Note that Laplanche was considered one of Lacan’s promising students. Yet, Laplanche is able to stay much closer to clinical work in a non-ambiguous, non-teasing, and more comprehensible manner than his teacher.  This gives us hope that our discipline can pursue ideas that are more fruitful despite our tendencies to carry on too slavishly the Continue reading Extracts from an interview with Jean Laplanche, interviewed by Alberto Luchetti

Bert Cohler (December 3 1938 – May 9, 2012)
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 Click Here to Read:  Bertram Cohler, psychologist and esteemed teacher, 1938-2012 By William Harms in the U Chicago News on May 14, 2012.

Click Here to Read: Obituary for Bertram Cohler in the Chicago Tribune on May 13, 2012.

Bert Thoughts: In Memorium for Bertram Cohler.
N. Szajnberg, MD, Managing Editor

Bert and I met in 1970 when I was a counselor at the Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School and he was preparing to follow Dr. B. as the director. I began working as Leslie Aranow’s co-counselor and also the night counselor for the six boys in the youngest dorm.
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History made in White house, in analysis, in mind/brain research & more from Sasha Rolde on IP.net
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Dear Colleagues,

Our international psychoanalytic website is ready to give you all the good news this week, one in which our country’s president made history by endorsing gay marriage and history was made in psychoanalysis by a prominent psychoanalytic society and institute as it changed its name to move forward. May these historic changes continue in our own society.

Let me draw your attention to:

1) Note the change of name of the New York Freudian Society

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