Most critics have come to terms with the contradictions in Freud's
work by attempting to impose a unified system even at the cost of
rejecting crucial metapyschological concepts such as the death
wish. According to Jean Laplanche, "such variations or variants
deserve better than a choice in favor of one of the other: they
require an interpretation and such as interpretation implies that,
as is the case with the analysis of dreams, all the elements be
juxtaposed so that nothing be eliminated, that the either / or be
retanslatedinto an and." In a way that Freud plainly does not
control, Laplanche argures, there are at work two different
concepts corresponding to each of a series of crucial Freudian
terms; in each of these conceptual pairs of one of the elements is
solidary with a specific conceptual scheme and the other with a
second one. The entire body of Freud's work, for Laplanche, is
constituted as an elaborately structured polemical field in which
two mutually exclusive schemes may be seen to be struggling to
dominate a single terminological apparatus. Life and Death in
Psychoanalysis is a painstakingly lucid inquiry into the
interpretative consequences of the conceptual and terminological
difficulties posed by Freud's texts. It is an uncannily precise
delineation of the perverse rigor with which Freud's most virulent
discoveries perpetually escape him-and are endlessly rediscovered.
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