Egocracy

Marx, Freud and Lacan

Sonia Arribas

10/2011
ROUSE, HOWARD & SONIA ARRIBAS.

Egocracy. Marx, Freud und Lacan. Zürich 2011. 279 S., Bibliographie, brosch.

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The claim is often made that Marxism lacks an adequate conception of the subject and psychoanalysis an adequate conception of the social. "Egocracy: Marx, Freud and Lacan" seeks to render this contention redundant. The book's first part elaborates a new (non-Lukacsian, non-Althusserian etc.) reconstruction of the development of Marx's thought, centering around the (proto-Lacanian) problematic of the split subject. There are, we discover, three Marxes, not one (Lukacs et al.) or two (Althusser); and it is only the third Marx, the today much-maligned Marx of "Das Kapital", who definitively succeeds in the social articulation of the subject's division. Part two traces the effects of this articulation on the coherence of the work of Freud and Lacan. Freud, ironically, is revealed to have repressed his most revolutionary insight: "the nucleus of the Ego is Unconscious". Carried through, this formula is seen to explode the fundamentally asocial presuppositions of the two metapsychological topologies. Lacan, paradoxically, is shown to do justice to his master's most radical aspect only by effecting a gradual "return to Marx"; which is, at the same time, a turning away from his own earlier and indefensible erection of a "transcendental" symbolic order. Lacan's famous barred subject turns out, with a whole host of repercussions, to be none other than the (proletarian!) subject centrally diagnosed in Marx's magnum opus.

Sonia Arribas works at the Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona. Training psychoanalyst at the Institut du Champ Freudien. Howard Rouse is a writer and translator who lives in Barcelona.

This book tries to bring together the work of Marx, Freud and Lacan. It does this not by enumerating what might stereotypically be considered to be the central theses of these authors and then proceeding to combine them - a method that inevitably doomed to failure - but instead by confronting them each one of their oeuvres which what might best be described as its extimate core.

Titel zum Thema:
Freud, Sigmund  Lacan, Jacques  Marx, Karl  Psychoanalyse  Theorie Autoren