mourning

nationality

French

occupation / innovator as

psychoanalyst

winemaker

innovator in the field of

psychoanalysis

socialism or barbarism

translator

essayist

physician

university teacher

philosopher

French Resistance fighter

is a challenge placed before us to respond to the radical and ultimate enigma that questions that are asked of the dead such as 'what would he say' must now, all of a sudden, go unanswered.

As Jean Laplanche has remarked, every occasion of mourning challenges us to respond to the radical and ultimate enigma of the dead Other and thereby raises questions that are destined to remain unanswered: There is certainly no mourning without the question, what would he say', what would he have said', without the regret or remorse of not having been able to hold a sufficient dialogue, to understand what the other had to say.'

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Jean Laplanche