The Social Unconscious: Psychoanalysis Meets Public Consciousness

In this episode, Xiang Biao (Director, Max Planck Institute for
Social Anthropology) interviews Dr. Alf Gerlach, a senior
psychoanalyst whose decades-long work bridges German
psychoanalysis, Chinese social practice, and the Frankfurt
School’s radical fusion of Freud and Marx. Together, they dissect
a concept that reshapes how we see all social research: the
social unconscious.


This episode dismantles the myth that "social science is
neutral." It raises the question of the extent to which ignoring
the social unconscious makes us complicit in the very problems we
study.