The Capitalist Unconscious: Marx and Lacan - Hardcover

"The Capitalist Unconscious" is the first book-length study of Lacan s reading of Marx in English language. One cannot overestimate its significance in filling in this almost scandalous gap which it does splendidly. It offers many original and most compelling insights into both Marx and Lacan. Alenka Zupan i Samo Tom i s "The Capitalist Unconscious" does the simple thing that s so hard to do: taking Lacan seriously as a reader of Marx. Against all the confusions and failures that have often characterized the attempts to synthesize Freud and Marx, Tom i argues that we must think the structure of the unconscious and the structure of capitalism together. Benjamin Noys "From the Trade Paperback edition."

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 thought, which revolutionized the human sciences and whose relevance remains intact even today.