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The Capitalist Unconscious: Marx and Lacan
Samo Tomsic
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The book discusses the importance of Marx's critique of political economy in Lacan's attempt to rethink the political and philosophical legacy of Freudian psychoanalysis. By situating Marx in the broader context of Lacan's teaching it highlights the ongoing importance of the capacity of psychoanalysis to reaffirm a dialectical and materialist thinking in philosophy and beyond. Lacan presents an unorthodox image of Marx, linking his critique of capitalism with the fundamental concepts of psychoanalysis, the Freudian labour theory of the unconscious and emancipatory politics, showing that psychoanalysis, structuralism and critique of political economy participate in the same movement of ... Read more
The book discusses the importance of Marx's critique of political economy in Lacan's attempt to rethink the political and philosophical legacy of Freudian psychoanalysis. By situating Marx in the broader context of Lacan's teaching it highlights the ongoing importance of the capacity of psychoanalysis to reaffirm a dialectical and materialist thinking in philosophy and beyond. Lacan presents an unorthodox image of Marx, linking his critique of capitalism with the fundamental concepts of psychoanalysis, the Freudian labour theory of the unconscious and emancipatory politics, showing that psychoanalysis, structuralism and critique of political economy participate in the same movement of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Verso Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784781088
SKU
V9781784781088
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Ref
99-4
About Samo Tomsic
Samo Tomsic obtained his PhD in philosophy at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. In the past he has worked at the Institute of Philosophy in Ljubljana and at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht, and is currently research assistant in the interdisciplinary cluster Image Knowledge Gestaltung at the Humboldt University in Berlin. He has widely published on ... Read more
Reviews for The Capitalist Unconscious: Marx and Lacan
Samo Tomsic's achievement is to explain how the reference to psychoanalysis is crucial if we are to provide a theoretical framework for a confrontation with the totality of global capitalism. To be a Marxist today, one has to go through Lacan! - Slavoj Zizek The Capitalist Unconscious is the first book-length study of Lacan's reading of Marx in ... Read more