Disintegration of the Family Unit
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Écrits: The First Complete Edition in English · Jacques Lacan · p.126
The Mirror Stage as Formative of the / Function > 77. *On the Sociological Reality of Crime and Law and on the Relation of Psychoanalysis to their Dialectical Foundation*
Theoretical move: Lacan argues that psychoanalytic theory must be rigorously bounded to its clinical experience and cannot be extrapolated to collective entities (national character, collective superego), while simultaneously demonstrating that the superego and Oedipalism are historically and sociologically conditioned phenomena whose pathogenic force is tied to the disintegration of the conjugal family unit—and that psychoanalysis "unrealizes" crime without dehumanizing the criminal, opening access to the criminal's imaginary world through transference.
these effects express a dehiscence of the family unit at the heart of society… the family unit's power to captivate the individual has waxed as the family's social power has waned.