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The individualist paradigm is such that most of Freud’s readers have failed to see the extent to which he did not separate the individual from society: psychic reality is constituted by both the Oedipal scene (fantasy) and the social scene (superego), both ordered by the rela-tionship to otherness nourished by the demand for recognition and the belief in an Other who would be the source of meaning. From this it follows that psychoanalysis cannot be summed up simply as the removal of the Oedipal scene, but also implies the removal of the social scene, a double removal that properly constitutes castration and opens the analysand to a radical agnosticism in which the place of the Other is empty.