Perversion of culture, neurosis of the social bond. Due to the different the interpretations of the social symptom in psychoanalytical literature, we have decided to review the Freudian text "Malaise in the culture" in order to point out a difference between the psychoanalytical concept of culture and social bond. From Freud to Lacan, we have considered focusing on the reading of the malaise taking into account the relation between perversion and culture and neurosis and social bond. Following this interpretative line we inquire into the position of the psychoanalyst in social criticism. Once we can find the consideration of a bond regulated by the phallic joy, which helps us to identify the installation of a moral position, that means, to have a fetish for ideals.
Social bond; cultural element; phantasy; symptom; phallus