Seductions and Enigmas: Laplanche, Theory, Culture
- Submitting institution
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The University of Leeds
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- UOA27-1751
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Lawrence & Wishart
- ISBN
- 9781909831087
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2014
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Ray's chapter (chapter 12) 'Seduction, Receptivity and the ‘Feminine’ in Peter Greenaway’s The Pillow Book' was first published in the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 93 (2012), 761-782. It was not part of REF 2014 but as it is reprinted in the book with few alterations we do not consider it part of the output to be assessed in REF 2021. Ray published previous translations of the material in chapters one and two in 2006, but these have been revised and retranslated for this volume.
Seductions and Enigmas introduces Jean Laplanche’s challenging thought through a 38-page introductory chapter by the editors, and through Ray's translations of three of Laplanche’s texts on questions of reading/interpretation. It also presents and introduces newly translated work by some of Laplanche’s most important French co-thinkers; and it collects essays by Anglophone scholars and clinicians who redeploy and/or develop Laplanche’s thought in the reading of cultural texts (fiction, drama, cinema, painting, visual/sound installation). It is the only book dedicated to the topic of Laplanche and interpretation, and it is the first volume of essays to be published that systematically engages Laplanche’s thought with cultural works. Aside from conceiving and editing the volume, Ray is the co-author of the introduction, ‘Laplanche, Reading, Theory’, and the introductions to chapters four to thirteen. He is the sole author of chapter twelve, ‘Seduction, Receptivity, and the Feminine’, but this appeared as a journal article in 2012. Ray is the translator of chapters one (25 pages), two (5 pages), four (10 pages), eight (31 pages), and nine (29 pages). Laplanche was one of the most distinguished psychoanalytic thinkers in Europe of the last 50-odd years but his work has not yet reached a wide Anglophone audience. Seductions and Enigmas seeks to correct this under-representation and demonstrate how Laplanche’s thought can help to recalibrate parameters of psychoanalytic interpretation for those with clinical as well as scholarly interests in Freud’s legacy.
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- Non-English
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