Hölderlin and the question of the father

Laplanche's study of Hoelderlin is not only the early work of one of Lacan's most brilliant students, one who, in contrast to the large majority of students of such a powerful master, was able to work through the unavoidable transference to gain his own stature and independence, it is also a response to a text that pursued in the most rigorous manner the dissociation of life and work, the work as the most radical consummation of the life from which it emerges. from the Introduction by Rainer Naegele