Unconscious: A Retrieval of its Socio-Historical Dimension.

Abstract

This paper outlines a retrieval of the socio-historical dimension of the unconscious in its synchronic and dyachronic registers. From the synchronic point of view, taking unemployment as an example, the importance of the institutions is emphasized as the background of psychic life. Its failure in contemporary society leads to impasses in subjectivation which also finds expression in social symptoms. From the dyachronic point of view, the crisis of the representations of labour is seen as a sign of a real earthquake in the radical imaginary of our times.