Abstract
It can be said that the work of the French psychoanalyst, Jean Laplanche, is marked by an inescapably 鈥榓cademic鈥� tendency. Beginning with the landmark Vocabulaire de la psychanalyse, co-authored with Jean-Bertrand Pontalis, and continued in the seminar that would become his Problematiques, Laplanche鈥檚 principal concern was taking up a latent thread of academic discourse already established by Freud.
Speaking in 1971, on behalf of the 鈥楲aboratory of Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology鈥� he helped to establish within Paris VII University, Laplanche made the following pronouncement:
It is time for analysis to conquer - to reconquer - the teaching of analysis, to make the teaching of analysis something analytic.
To reconquer the university, but for who? What is - to use Laplanche鈥檚 term 鈥� the exigency that underwrites his presence at the university, and in whose name is this exigency enacted? In the name of the students of 惭补颈听'68? For the supposed academic legacy of Freud and the early analysts? Or is it rather in spite of Lacan鈥檚 various 鈥渁ttacks on knowledge鈥�? Can psychoanalysis even be taught, or is it communicated only by way of initiation?
Without committing to a wild analysis of Laplanche, it is left to consider the legacy of a psychoanalytic form of pedagogy, in which the dual affiliation of its 尘补卯迟谤别蝉 鈥� as both teachers and analysts 鈥� is always put into question. Regardless of which way this personal bias swings, bringing psychoanalysis to a second site, 鈥榖eyond the walls鈥� of its primary, clinical context, means also inescapably addressing the unconscious outside of a therapeutic context designed to 鈥榗ontain鈥� it.
More personal for Laplanche was the question of whether the promise of a mode of teaching that is 鈥榩recisely permeable to the inspiration of analysis,鈥� is all too susceptible to the same kinds of transferential relationship exhibited in the rites of the Lacanian school. For 鈥� as Laplanche wryly notes - despite the apparent strength of this听relationship, 鈥渆very sorcerer is only ever an apprentice鈥�.
Biography
Jake Clwyd Roberts is a writer and researcher of psychoanalytic theory. A graduate of the psychoanalytic theory programme at 香港六合彩中特网, Jake鈥檚 dissertation focussed on the temporal logic of apres-coup (鈥榓fterwardness鈥�, or Nachtr盲glichkeit in Freud鈥檚 German). His current research interests centre on the theoretical contributions of French analysts such as Piera Aulagnier, Pierre Fedida, M谩ria T枚r枚k, and Jean Laplanche - particularly in terms of topology and temporality.
Image:听Erich Dieckmann, Komposition aus Fl盲chenelementen [Composition of Surface Elements], 1936. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.听
Credit: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kunstbibliothek / Dietmar Katz听
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