Another related strategy continental feminists employ in re-reading Lacan and Freud is to use their theoretical conclusions concerning the pathologies of female subjectivity as symptomatic of the pathological culture that women find themselves in.
Hence his interest in questions such as the state of the family and the links between common civility and wider pathologies.
Rural ghettos now suffer from all the dependence-induced pathologies of their urban cousins.
And even if they evolve a way of tackling such deep-rooted pathologies, the results will take a long time to show.
Then, having confessed a failure of sympathy, and having earlier called for restraint in the face of "the seduction of binary thinking", Mr Almond hastens to repeat his team's tendentious good-guy/bad-guy narrative: I'm not trying to soft-pedal the very real pathologies of the modern conservative movement.
But Mr Yushchenko must be steelier if he is to overcome the corrupt, fractious pathologies of Ukrainian politics.
A concomitant breakdown of traditional institutions is manifested in the decline of religiosity and of trade unions; a marked rise in various social pathologies (crime, drug and alcohol addiction); a decline in political participation and of trust in public authority; and the erosion of the institutions of family and marriage.
"Already, marketing is deeply implicated in many serious pathologies," he says.
MOST eras have their symbolic murders: crimes that are not only terrible but seem also to reflect the nation's pathologies.
Rather than curing the fractious pathologies of Ukrainian politics, Mr Yushchenko succumbed to them, failing to build the institutions that underpin democracy.
Spend 24 hours here, however, and this bland yet strange locale a sort of amenity that almost everybody visits but hardly anybody notices emerges as a microcosm of modern Britain's complexion and pathologies.
