For it is necessary now more than ever to look inside ourselves and to have a deeper sense of the other. What we call empathy. In empathy, I feel the emotions of the other within me.

At a time when society is becoming transactional, where people merely communicate instead of engaging in more meaningful connections with one another, and relationships become superficial, it matters to rethink Freud. Freud traverses in his work the distance from the psychoanalytic couch to the formation of society, inviting us to approach the latter in light of the demands of mental life, with culture serving as a bridge from one point to another.