Radical Psychoanalysis: Laplanche in America | Gila Ashtor and Elaine Zickler

Gila Ashtor in conversation with Elaine Zickler. Moderated by Adele Tutter, Director, PSP, Columbia University.
Jean Laplanche is one of the leading theorists in French psychoanalytic
thought, but his writing has only recently been translated into English; thus,
his theories remain largely underrepresented in American psychoanalytic
discourse. Gila Ashtor’s Exigent Psychoanalysis, The Interventions of Jean
Laplanche (Routledge, 2021) represents an important contribution to a new
wave of American scholarship that explicates Laplanche’s contributions for
Anglophone readers. In conversation with Elaine Zickler, Ashtor
demonstrates how Laplanche’s radical innovations offer an critical and
provocative alternative to the dominant strands of psychoanalysis in North
America, drawing lines between his theories; his critique of Freud; affect and
queer theories; and the fractious development of American psychoanalysis.

The link to Exigent Psychoanalysis, The Interventions of Jean Laplanche (Routledge 2021)
https://www.routledge.com/Exigent-Psy...

Gila Ashtor, PhD, LP is a critical theorist, psychoanalyst and writer. Her areas of
academic and clinical expertise are trauma, affective disorders, identity, and sexuality. In
addition to Exigent Psychoanalysis, she is the author of Homo Psyche: On Queer Theory and Erotophobia (Fordham UP, 2021) and an experimental memoir, Aural History (Punctum, 2020). She teaches at Columbia University and the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR), and is in private practice in New York.

Elaine Zickler, PhD, LCSW is a psychoanalyst and doctorate in English Literature on
the faculty of the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia (PCP), where she has been
teaching the work of Laplanche in connection with courses on Psychoanalysis and
Homosexuality; Gender and Sexuality; French Psychoanalysis; Freud’s
Metapsychological Papers; and a Master Class on Laplanche. She is in private practice in Moorestown, NJ.