What connects, and what divides?
Lacan claimed he knows no other source of brotherhood than segration. In 1973, in an almost prophesising manner he considered the future growth of racism inevitable – inspite of the hopeful atmosphere of a France which at the time seemed more progressive than the United States. What does the psychoanalysis of Lacan – who always considered himself a continuator of Freud – have to say about social bonds? It’s worthy of our attention, because the relation between a psychoanalyst and an analysand is a particular form of this social bond, the repercussions of which have a political dimension. Together with Lacan, we can add the concept of jouissance to the group identifications – based on segregation but also structured in varied ways – as that which is motor of society.