The Capitalist Unconscious
Samo Tomsic
Verso
A major systematic study of the connection between Marx and Lacans work

Despite a resurgence of interest in Lacanian psychoanalysis, particularly in terms of the light it casts on capitalist ideologyas witnessed by the work of Slavoj iekthere remain remarkably few systematic accounts of the role of Marx in Lacans work.

A major, comprehensive study of the connection between their work, The Capitalist Unconscious resituates Marx in the broader context of Lacans teaching and insists on the capacity of psychoanalysis to reaffirm dialectical and materialist thought. Lacans unorthodox reading of Marx refigured such crucial concepts as alienation, jouissance and the Freudian labour theory of the unconscious. Tracing these developments, Tomi 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.