Phil Langer is Professor for Psychoanalytic Social Psychology and Social Psychiatry at the International Psychoanalytic University Berlin. He was also a Visiting Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the College of New Jersey in 2011-2016. As part of the social sciences, social psychology and social psychiatry derive their particular strength from looking at the social locations and interconnectedness of the subjects, their experiences and actions, their diverse social disciplines and experiences of suffering, but also their social agency and the chances of their emancipation. Understood in this way, it is about the development of a systematic inter- and transdisciplinary perspective on the always conflictual relationship between subject and society as a subject-related contribution to the critical-reflective support of social and political change.