The Capitalist Unconscious

Marx and Lacan

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Pub Date 08 Dec 2015 | Archive Date 10 Nov 2015

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A major systematic study of the connection between Marx and Lacan’s work

Finalist for the American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis Book Prize

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.

A 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. Lacan’s unorthodox reading of Marx refigured such crucial concepts as alienation, jouissance and the Freudian ‘labour theory of the unconscious’. 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.
A major systematic study of the connection between Marx and Lacan’s work

Finalist for the American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis Book Prize

Despite a resurgence of interest in Lacanian...

Advance Praise

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 Zupančič

“Samo Tomšič’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, Tomšič argues that we must think the structure of the unconscious and the structure of capitalism together.”
—Benjamin Noys

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...


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