Laplanche: From the Enigmatic Message of the other to the Unconscious Alterity within: The Temptation of Biology: Freud's Theories of Sexuality. By Jean Laplanche. Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith. New York:  The Unconscious in Translation, 2015,  xii + 140 pp., $73.50 hardcover, $39.50 paperback. Between Seduction and Inspiration: Man. By Jean Laplanche. Translated and with an introduction by Jeffrey Mehlman. New York:  The Unconscious in Translation, 2015,  xxii + 304 pp., $68.50 hardcover, $48.50 paperback.

These two books, The Temptation of Biology: Freud's Theories of Sexuality (hereafter, Temptation) and Between Seduction and Inspiration: Man (hereafter, Seduction), by the French psychoanalyst Jean Laplanche are complete English translations, compiled by Laplanche himself, of his major writings and lectures from 1992 through 1999 and published here in 2015 by the American press The Unconscious in Translation. Although Laplanche's name is well known, linked with J.-B. Pontalis as co-author of The Language of Psycho-Analysis (1967; hereafter, Language), as well as from his Life and Death in Psychoanalysis (1970) and New Foundations for Psychoanalysis (1987), it is important to keep in mind that until his death in 2012 Laplanche was also in charge of the complete translation of the works of Freud from German into French, translating many of the papers himself. This process provided him a particularly intimate knowledge of certain aspects of Freud's writing, not easily available to the exclusively anglophone reader of Strachey's Standard Edition. Importantly, Laplanche's thinking and writing stem also from his clinical psychoanalytic work. And even absent examples from his own practice,