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Jean Laplanche died on 6 May 2012. The day of his death was the day of Freud's birth as if this were a sign of destiny recalling that he devoted his entire life as a psychoanalyst to the works of the inventor of psychoanalysis.
The importance of Jean Laplanche's contribution in the field of psychoanalysis has set its mark on several fields:
That of the study of the work of Freud, and the construction of his work proper: as a theorist he initially concentrated on the critical commentary of Freud and then developed his own original work focusing on what he called the generalized theory of seduction.
That of the translation in French of the complete works of Freud. In the French publishing landscape marked by an efflorescence of translations, undoubtedly very rich, but partial and disparate, he organized the translation of the complete works with extreme rigour and great determination. In France this translation is now a reference which is impossible to ignore. It had all begun with The Vocabulary of Psychoanalysis published by Jean Laplanche together with J.-B. Pontalis in 1968.
That of the psychoanalytical institution itself since he held a determining role in the foundation of the Psychoanalytical Association of France and in the definition of what was later to be called the ‘French model’.