Egocracy: Marx, Freud and Lacan
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. Marx's Trajectory -- or, Three Ways of Splitting the Subject -- 1. The Imaginary and the Real (Part One): the "Early Writings" -- 2. The Imaginary and the Real (Part Two): from the "Theses on Feuerbach" to the 1859 "Preface" -- 3. The Symbolic, the Imaginary and the Real: Das Kapital -- II. From Freud to Lacan... and Back to Marx -- or, How Psychoanalysis Slowly Discovers the Social -- 1. "The Nucleus of the Ego is Unconscious": the Trauma of the Social in Freud's Two Topographies -- 2. From the Transcendental Symbolic to the Historicity of Discourse: Lacan's "Return to Marx" -- 2.1 Two Contradictory Trends in the "Early" Lacan -- 2.2 Egocracy and the "Discourse of Capitalism" -- or, Rethinking the Symbolic, the Imaginary and the Real in Seminar XVII -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography