Jessica Benjamin’s work continues to provide a contemporary psychoanalytic perspective today on power relations as when she wrote The Bonds of Love in 1980. As Benjamin highlights, those who seek connection, fluidity, and nurture are confronted by a culture which repetitively undermines selfhood through a divisive capitalist realism where profit and ‘efficiency’ precede and override nurture and connection, despite its frequent and empty claims to the contrary (Fisher, 2009). Benjamin’s work thus emphasises the schism between ‘rational’ orthodoxies and non-Western epistemologies which are regarded by more fundamentalist representatives of the former as ‘primitive’ or ‘irrational’.