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16 Facts About Jean Laplanche

1.

Jean Laplanche grew up in the Cote d'Or region of France.

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Jean Laplanche attended the Ecole Normale Superieure in the 1940s, studying philosophy.

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Jean Laplanche was a student of Jean Hyppolite, Gaston Bachelard and Maurice Merleau-Ponty.

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In 1943, during the Vichy regime, Jean Laplanche joined the French Resistance, and was active in Paris and Bourgogne.

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Jean Laplanche, advised by Lacan, began studying medicine, and eventually earned his doctorate and became an analyst himself, joining the International Psychoanalytical Association, of which he remained a member until his death.

6.

Jean Laplanche seemed to live exclusively in Pommard until his death two years later.

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Jean Laplanche was later an honorary member of this Association with Jean-Bertrand Pontalis and Guy Rosolato.

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8.

Jean Laplanche was granted honorary doctorates from the University of Lausanne, the University of Buenos Aires, and the University of Athens.

9.

Jean Laplanche was the winner of the Mary S Sigourney Award.

10.

Jean Laplanche was made a Knight of Arts and Letters in 1990.

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Jean Laplanche supervised theses of students, who are now teaching "psychoanalysis in the university" in France and elsewhere in the world.

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Jean Laplanche was president of the Association Psychoanalytique de France from 1969 to 1971, being succeeded by Pontalis.

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Jean Laplanche's seminars have been published in the seven volume Problematiques series while many of his most important essays are found in La revolution copernicienne inachevee.

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Jean Laplanche forgot the importance of his theory, and its very meaning, which was not just the importance of external events.

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Jean Laplanche proposed 'a reformulation of Freud's seduction theory as a truly general theory of the origins of the repressed unconscious, rather than a mere etiological hypothesis about neurotic symptoms'.

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The category of gender, says Jean Laplanche, is often "absent or unnoticed" in Freud.