This article discusses the dichotomy between individual and society in the contemporary social and political debate. The role of psychoanalysis in this debate is also treated, as well as its increasing presence in political thought in recent decades. Attention is called to the dialog between contemporary social thought and Freudian thought, and how this dialog relocates several important epistemological questions concerning the individual vs. society. The article also discusses possible inroads for this venture based, on the discussion of ambivalence.
Psychoanalysis; politics; individual; society; ambivalence