ABSTRACT
So far, the concern with the unconscious has been with the inner psychic life of individual human beings, though it has already had to move beyond this when considering art and the unconscious. This present chapter aims to expand the scope of the discussion in order to argue that the unconscious acts as ‘lining’ or ‘inside’ to all forms of social life. I will conclude by looking at what psychoanalysis thinks people are like, an attitude which some may find bleak while it strikes others as simply unsentimental.
