Louise Kaplan

Louise Janet Kaplan, o.s. Miller, (18 November 1929, New York City – 9 January 2012, New York) was an American psychologist and psychoanalyst best known for her research into childhood development. Kaplan authored seven books including the 1991 book, Female Perversions: The Temptations of Emma Bovary which was made into the 1996 film Female Perversions starring Tilda Swinton.

Publications

• Oneness and Separateness: From Infant to Individual, 1978
• Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood, 1984
• The Family Romance of the Impostor-Poet Thomas Chatterton, 1987
• Female Perversions: The Temptations of Emma Bovary, 1991
• No Voice Is Ever Wholly Lost, 1995
• Cultures of Fetishism, 2006

Death

Kaplan died of pancreatic cancer on Monday, January 9, 2012, at Beth Israel Hospital.

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