POSTMODERN ANTHROPOLOGY FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE CONTEMPORARY RELATIONAL CRISIS

The article examines the problem of the crisis of relations, which is manifested in the apparent increase in violence around the world, from the point of view of the conceptual heritage of philosophical anthropology, in particular, the psychoanalytic theory of personality development and the poststructuralist criticism. As we believe, these approaches allow us to formulate the above problem exactly in philosophical terms, i.e., in the terms of discovering the correlation between human involvement into the postindustrial production system and poststructuralist teaching about libidinal economy. For, according to poststructuralist vision, it is libidinal economy that enables us to suppress some aggressive strives by absorbing energy, substituting the gratification of primitive urges for an advanced system of the social awards. Additionally, this paper testifies that when we are within the framework of psychoanalytic and postmodern anthropology, we can conclude: the answer to the question, where the huge amount of human destructive energy goes, which is not investing in production relations, lies in the sphere of interpersonal relationships. Put it differently, we are forced to admit that the contemporary social system, namely its institutional structure, is faced with essential difficulties in the matter of regulating interpersonal relationships, since it appears to be powerless against the phenomenon of malignant violence.