Other classic thinkers seem to have left a much deeper mark on his work, notably Plato, Descartes and Hegel. Karl Marx is just one of the many theorists referred to in Jacques Lacan’s teachings. Here we present the book's introduction. The Capitalist Unconscious , along with all other books on our Critical Theory Reading List, are 50% of for the month of September as part of our Back to University Sale. Tracing these developments, Tomšič maintains that psychoanalysis, structuralism and the critique of political economy participate in the same movement of thought his book shows how to follow this movement through to some of its most important conclusions. Lacan’s unorthodox reading of Marx refigured such crucial concepts as alienation, jouissance and the Freudian ‘labour theory of the unconscious’. Despite a resurgence of interest in Lacanian psychoanalysis, particularly in terms of the light it casts on capitalist ideology-as witnessed by the work of Slavoj Žižek-there remain remarkably few systematic accounts of the role of Marx in Lacan’s work.Ī major, comprehensive study of the connection between their work, The Capitalist Unconscious resituates Marx in the broader context of Lacan’s teaching and insists on the capacity of psychoanalysis to reaffirm dialectical and materialist thought.
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