Publisher's Synopsis
Publication of these lectures from the 1989-90 seminar on après-coup completes the English translation of the three major works from a period of Laplanche's greatest synthetic creativity, the other two being 'New Foundations for Psychoanalysis' (1987) and 'The Temptation of Biology' (1991-92). This volume also includes two related essays from the same period translated by Luke Thurston: 'Time and the Other' and 'Temporality and Translation'.