This short piece seeks to introduce the reader unfamiliar with Laplanche to the scope of his work, and to the extraordinary evolution of his thought. It indicates the place of “Interpreting (with) Freud” and “Exigency and Going Astray” within the chronological and theoretical itinerary of Laplanche's enterprise, and attempts to “bridge” the two texts by indicating the lines of continuity between them, and by clarifying the points of development which take place from the one to the other.