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The author takes as her starting-point an encounter, which is not necessarily consensual, between Emmanuel Levinas' thought and his conception of philosophy as ethics - ethics understood as responsibility for the other - and that of the psychoanalyst Jean Laplanche, who posits the first adult other as a seducer of the young psyche from the outset.
List of contents
Series Editor's Foreword , Preface , Introduction , On a Possible Contribution of Levinas'S Thought to Contemporary Psychoanalysis , Ethics and psychoanalysis , Asymmetrical responsibility for the other as the analyst's ethic , At the Beginning of Life: Primal Seduction, Passion, and Ethical Exigency , The asymmetry of the primal situation: primal seduction and some elements of the Laplanchian theory of generalised seduction , Maternal passion, the analyst's passion, or the primacy of affect , The ethical exigency at the beginning of life and the need for ethics in analysis , The Origins of Subjective Appropriation in Analysis, The Analyst'S Passion, and the Ethical Seduction of the Analytic Situation , Subjective appropriation in analysis , The ethical seduction of the analytic situation , A New Psychoanalytic Status For Ethics? The Feminine?Maternal Origins Of The Capacity For Responsibility For The Other , Psychoanalytic hypotheses , The feminine-maternal origins of ethics , Conclusions , The analyst's anxiety or ethical awakening , Appendices , *Appendix 1. The case of new parental configurations: new perspectives , Appendix 2. Milena , Appendix 3. Responding to (répondre à), answering for (répondre de): Laplanche and responsibility in Levinas *
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Viviane Chetrit-Vatine
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The author takes as her starting-point an encounter, which is not necessarily consensual, between Emmanuel Levinas' thought and his conception of philosophy as ethics - ethics understood as responsibility for the other - and that of the psychoanalyst Jean Laplanche, who posits the first adult other as a seducer of the young psyche from the outset.
