How Do Systems Fall in Love?
Lacanian Explorations of Niklas Luhmann’s Communicative Theory
- Author
- Duane Rousselle
This essay explores Niklas Luhmann’s contemporary sociological theory of love from the perspective of Lacanian psychoanalysis. It proposes a reading of its underlying systems approach according to what Jacques-Alain Miller names ‘ordinary psychosis.’ These perspectives expose a number of difficulties inherent to Luhmann’s approach.