Abstract
In a tribute to Werner Boleber, this essay argues that the species of psychoanalytically oriented social theory in which Werner and I have been engaged in is in danger of becoming extinct. The postmodern suspicion of "grand" theories; the psychoanalytic profession's retreat into purely clinical issues; the relational school's desire to provide a more reassuring picture of the human animal; the abstractions and hyper-radicalism of much French psychoanalytic theory that cruises above the workings of concrete social institutions and actual history; and the move away from psychoanalysis by the members of the second and third generations of the Frankfurt School have all contributed to the decline in psychoanalytically oriented social theory
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