I can think of no better introduction to the work of Jean Laplanche, one of France's most respected psychoanalytic theoreticians, than this compact collection of ten papers, nine of which are drawn from his 1992 opus La Revolution Copernicienne Inachevée. As most of the papers come from a single source, there is a unity to the collection despite some unavoidable repetition.

In addition, there is an excellent fifty-page introduction by the volume's editor, John Fletcher, lecturer in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Warwick. It is perhaps appropriate that this introduction should have been written by a specialist in literary studies, as much of Laplanche's approach is rooted in the