Taking seriously psychoanalysis, human suffering, open hatred and widespread violence, but also human "rights'/"capacity' for love, joy and creative imagination, the contributors to this volume believe that psychoanalysis "still' has a great deal to offer. For they do not doubt the importance and relevance of psychoanalysis to the contemporary culture and society at large. They diverge, or partially converge, however, in their own primary concerns, reservations, reasons, conditions of possibility and the internal/external intertextuality engaged in their discussions, regarding these and many other unstated and inarticulable questions of this book.