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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.

Lacan’s unorthodox reading of Marx refigured such crucial concepts as alienation, jouissance and the Freudian ‘labour theory of the unconscious’. Daringly original, Tomšic does a masterful job of orchestrating the works of Marx, Freud, and Lacan, playing their ideas off of one another in varying arrangements to produce a composition that is wholly new and exhilarating.A major systematic study of the connection between Marx and Lacan’s workįinalist for the American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis Book Prizeĭespite 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.Ī 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. Thought you’d never hear anything new about Jacques Lacan or for that matter Karl Marx or Sigmund Freud? Then give Samo Tomšic's The Capitalist Unconscious: Marx and Lacan a listen. One of the most important books of the year. In 2015, he wrote The Capitalist Unconscious: Marx and Lacan. Recognizing the relationship between the unconscious and capitalism, with Tomšic’s help, will make us better equipped to continue this class struggle. Dezember 2017 Im Gesprch mit / Positionen Samo Tomi currently works at the interdisciplinary laboratory Bild Wissen Gestaltung at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Against all the confusions and failures that have often characterized attempts to synthesize Freud and Marx, Tomšic argues that we must think the structure of the unconscious and the structure of capitalism together. The Capitalist Unconscious does the simple thing that’s so hard to do: taking Lacan seriously as a reader of Marx. It offers many original and most compelling insights into both Marx and Lacan. The first book-length study of Lacan’s reading of Marx in the English language, filling an almost scandalous gap-which it does splendidly.

Save up to 80 versus print by going digital with VitalSource. To be a Marxist today, one has to go through Lacan! Slavoj Žižek A major, comprehensive study of the connection between their work, The Capitalist Unconscious resituates Marx in the broader context of Lacans teaching and. The Capitalist Unconscious: Marx and Lacan is written by Samo Tomi and published by Verso. Samo Tomšic’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.