Abstract
Our article results from the concern of psychoanalysts about the success or failure of social movements as a response to the current institutional, political and social crisis. We emphasize the epistemological and political dilemma present in the question that went through the May 1968 movement: after all, do structures reflect on the streets or not? To answer this question, we examined the effects of the movement a posteriori and compared them with Lacan’s theoretical work. Based on this critical balance, we consider May 68 as a reminder that structuring a new form of politics is possible. Naming the shame of excesses in the social ties of our time may confer dignity to the signifier and produce a sufficient point by the dimension of ethics and uniqueness. Such a position produces a discursive twist, incited by the courage to have an idea and the possibility of reinventing the social bond by successive subversions and revolutions.
Keywords:
event; social bond; shame; politics; psychoanalysis