Abstract

AMARAL, Mônica do. The primacy of the other in the field of psychoanalysis: a dialogue with Laplanche. Rev. bras. psicanál [online]. 2013, vol.47, n.3, pp. 27-40. ISSN 0486-641X.

This essay sought to present the ideas of Jean Laplanche in a lively manner, with emphasis on the way the author articulated them with the education given to the Psychoanalysis post-graduate students (Université Paris VII), as well as on the dialogue established with analysts worldwide during international congresses and conferences. The emphasis was given to the princeps idea of primacy of the other in the constitution of psychism and of unconscious sexuality. It is the presence of the other within us, of the strange/familiar underlined by Freud, which is resumed by Laplanche in order to rethink not only the foundations of psychoanalysis but the foundations of Western thought. The role of otherness in the constitution of the psychical opens an important discussion about the cultural dimension which constitutes us, central for rethinking the bases of a Brazilian psychoanalysis.

Keywords : Laplanche; primacy of the other; strange/familiar and culture; new foundations of psychoanalysis.

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