Psychoanalytic Sociology: A New Theory of the Social Bond

Singularities are isolated social bonds. They lack a common language with one another and express themselves with certainty.Strangeness is therefore no longer constitutive to the social bond.It has become elevated to the very principle of social order.Our social world has become strange. Duane Rousselle explores this new theory of the social bond while accounting for recent developments in the cultural logic of capitalism.Each chapter offers a different and compelling perspective on broader phenomena and notions of estrangement within civilization through explorations of the evil empire, rogue states, the master-slave dialectic, and the new status of knowledge that is at stake in the era of singularities.This book offers enriched and novel dialogues across Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, Marxist and anarchist theory, and theoretical sociology with illustrative contemporary examples.Psychoanalytic Sociology argues that our current social crises are exemplified by the way social gr