This article replies to points made by other authors in this volume, notably on the negative role of psychoanalysis in queer debates, and in a restated defence of gay marriage and the sociological approach to individual subject formation. Drawing on the analysis of the ‘social unconscious’ to be found in Retour à Reims, it then seeks to sketch out the bases for ‘critical thought’ in the current cultural and political context, parameters formed by ‘determinism’ (a structural understanding of the lived reality of an unequal social world) and ‘immanence’ (the presence and availability of that world to agency and change).
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