Heinrichs delineates the framework within which the social sciences are currently developing. In this way he makes Alfred Lorenzer's work understandable as both a reaction and an attempt at self-assertion by psychoanalysis. For too

long, psychoanalytic theory and practice have been bandied about as evidence or as booty in the struggle around the theory of science in which only would-be victors are to be seen so far. Now that psychoanalysis has been reformulated as a nonsubjectivistic theory of the subject, it gives up its erstwhile particularism and completes the arc from the deformation of subjects to the deformative objectivity of the social structures themselves. Heinrichs carries out a critical retracing of Lorenzer's argument.