PSYCHOLOGIST

Jean Laplanche

1924 - 2012

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Jean Laplanche (French: [laplɑ̃ʃ]; 21 June 1924 – 6 May 2012) was a French author, psychoanalyst and winemaker. Laplanche is best known for his work on psychosexual development and Sigmund Freud's seduction theory, and wrote more than a dozen books on psychoanalytic theory. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean Laplanche has received more than 121,451 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Jean Laplanche is the 178th most popular psychologist (down from 162nd in 2019), the 3,419th most popular biography from France (down from 2,955th in 2019) and the 11th most popular French Psychologist.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Jean Laplanche ranks 178 out of 235Before him are Dimitri Uznadze, James Hillman, Brenda Milner, Raymond Moody, Boris Cyrulnik, and Michael Gazzaniga. After him are Henri Nouwen, Jacques-Alain Miller, Robert D. Hare, Louis Leon Thurstone, Lewis Terman, and Otto Binswanger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Jean Laplanche ranks 209Before him are Jaime Lusinchi, Genichi Taguchi, Wiel Coerver, Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma, Anatoli Bashashkin, and Idries Shah. After him are Evald Ilyenkov, Juan Carlos González, Basil Bernstein, Anne Vernon, J. J. Johnson, and Vilgot Sjöman. Among people deceased in 2012, Jean Laplanche ranks 180Before him are Genichi Taguchi, Carlo Rambaldi, Jack Klugman, Christian Marin, Harry Carey Jr., and Albert George Wilson. After him are Albert O. Hirschman, Ervin Zádor, Celeste Holm, Pierre Mondy, José María Zárraga, and Claude Pinoteau.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Laplanche ranks 3,419 out of 6,770Before him are Charles Pinot Duclos (1704), Zino Francescatti (1902), Joseph Vendryes (1875), François Buzot (1760), Julie Manet (1878), and Casimir Pierre Périer (1777). After him are Sandrine Bonnaire (1967), Yvon Douis (1935), Gunnor (950), E. D. Morel (1873), Jean Rotrou (1609), and Jacques-Joseph Champollion-Figeac (1778).

Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In France

Among psychologists born in France, Jean Laplanche ranks 11Before him are Pierre Janet (1859), Théodule-Armand Ribot (1839), Émile Coué (1857), Henri Wallon (1879), Françoise Dolto (1908), and Boris Cyrulnik (1937). After him are Jacques-Alain Miller (1944).