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In this short introduction to the Special Issue on ‘sociology and psychoanalysis’, we provide some background information on the conference from which the issue arose, give a brief overview of the issue’s contents and outline the history of the two disciplines’ relationship. We conclude with some thoughts on the ongoing need for a sociology informed by psychoanalysis and a psychoanalysis informed by sociology.