The Capitalist Unconscious: Marx and Lacan

Acknowledgements Introduction: Lacan's Second Return to Freud 1. 'The Unconscious Is Politics': From Saussure to Marx Structure and History Saussure and Political Economy Representation and Production The Logic of Surplus and Loss 2. The Capitalist Unconscious: A Return to Freud Weltanschauung The Labour Theory of the Unconscious Lustgewinn Repression and Production 3. The Fetish and the Sympton Against Psychoanalytic Generalisations Fetishism without Perversion The Organ and the Animal The Symptom between Truth and Jouissance 4. What is Capitalist Discourse? Marx and the Theory of Discourses From the Master's Discourse to the University Discourse The Fifth Discourse? Conclusion: Politics and Modernity Index