Is this a dream I had last night?

Some crazy dictionary, half Flaubert’s idées

reçues …, half Raymond Williams’s Keywords, half Barbara Cassin’s lexicon
of untranslatable concepts, with maybe another half of Laplanche and Pontalis
dictionary of psychoanalysis? So many halves, but yes, it is true, even if a
dream as well. The Marx through Lacan Vocabulary is an amazing compen-
dium, assembled by Latin Americans (where all the true Lacano-Marxists
flourish)—Christina Soto van der Plas, Edgar Miguel Juárez-Salazar, Carlos
Gómez Camarena, and David Pavón-Cuéllar—and startlingly international,
with contributors from a dozen countries in Europe, the Middle East, and the
Americas. Whether you need to brush up on the distinction between “aliena-
tion” and “separation” or parse the difference between the “owner” in Marx
and the “master” in Lacan, if you want to suss out how “surplus-jouissance”
differs from “surplus-value”, or finally understand those nefarious mathemes
and four discourses—this is the book for you. Sure to be on the bedside table
for every political psychoanalyst and libidinal Marxist—for what better aphro-
disiac is there than a dictionary?
Clint Burnham, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Aware of how creatively Lacan read Marx, this volume analyzes their recipro-
cal interaction: Marx critiquing Lacan and Lacan critiquing Marx. The authors
send us along an exciting Möbius strip while showing the need for radical cri-
tique. This collaborative and plurivocal book is an admirable achievement, an
indispensable resource, and a major reference.
Patricia Gherovici, Co-founder and Director of the Philadelphia
Lacan Group and Associate Faculty, Psychoanalytic Studies Minor,
University of Pennsylvania, USA

A direly needed work for both experts and newcomers in the fields of psy-
choanalysis, Marxism, political and critical theory, and the analysis of ideology
and culture. Beyond being a valuable dictionary of terms, this collection offers
original theses regarding the pass of Marx through Lacan. The caliber of the
contributions is paralleled by the perspicacious selection of concepts.
A. Kiarina Kordela, Macalester College, Saint Paul, MN, USA

If invariably a third thing is needed to join the theoretical worlds of Marx and
Lacan, a vocabulary is the ultimate via regia: language being the messy field of
struggle and of truth. Beyond a mere little repertoire of concepts, this fine inter-
national collective realizes a clarifying, multifarious, and sometimes unruly
intervention paving the ways of how Marxism and psychoanalysis could or
should be related in order to confront that other (seemingly more natural and
harmonious) couple of capitalism and psychology.
Jan De Vos, Professor at Cardiff University, based in Belgium

There are many extremely pressing problems and antagonisms today for which
we still need a vocabulary—the right words to name and describe them. Not
necessarily new words, but words that resonate powerfully in the contemporary
context, concepts that make us see and grasp things differently. The Marx
through Lacan Vocabulary contributes to this task most admirably.
Alenka Zupančič, Professor at The European Graduate
School (EGS), and a research advisor and professor at
the Institute of Philosophy at the Research Centre of the
Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Slovenia

An indispensable contribution to thinking how Lacan routinely utilized fac-

ets of Marx’s thought in expanding the critical horizons of psychoanalysis.
This invaluable book shows us that we cannot truly appreciate Lacanian psy-
choanalysis and Lacanian social theory without registering the foundational
influence of Marx (as in notions of alienation, automatism, surplus-jouissance,
political economy, etc.). What emerges from this set of instructive and rigorous
essays is not only a Lacanian Marx, but also a properly Marxian Lacanianism.
This text will be the standard reference for psychoanalytic social critique for
years to come.
Derek Hook, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, USA

The Marx through Lacan Vocabulary is not merely the most comprehensive
and ambitious survey of the manifold Lacanian encounters and intersections
with Marx, which are both inspiring and convoluted. It is a tool most dearly
needed in present times, powerfully reminding us of the task and stakes of radi-
cal thought in the times of neoliberal slumber and depression.
Mladen Dolar, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

The Marx through Lacan Vocabulary is a remarkable and precious tool for all
those interested in exploring Lacan’s interpretation, appropriation, and trans-
formation of some of Marx’s key concepts, as well as an invaluable guide to the
many ways in which Lacan’s sustained engagement with Marx’s text shaped
his own thought. As such, it argues convincingly for the need to think together
political and libidinal economy, social production and the unconscious, labour
relations and language. This collection is also a testimony to the vitality of
Lacanian, Marxist, and post-Marxist studies in the so-called Global South, as
well as Europe and North America. Scholars, students, and psychoanalysts will
use it for years to come.
Miguel de Beistegui, ICREA Research Professor,
University of Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

A dazzling compendium of the non-relationship between Marx and Lacan!

As the subtitle of this book suggests, it is a helpful compass that orients the
reader in an otherwise overwhelming terrain of what there is in the in-between:
between Marx and Lacan, between the libidinal and the political, between the-
ory and praxis.
Amanda Holmes, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
The Marx through Lacan Vocabulary:
A Compass for Libidinal and Political
Economies

This text explores a set of key concepts in Marxist theory as developed and read
by Lacan, demonstrating links and connections between Marxist thought and
Lacanian practice.
The book examines the complexity of these encounters through the structure
of a comprehensive vocabulary which covers diverse areas, from capitalism
and communism to history, ideology, politics, work, and family. Offering new
perspectives on these concepts in psychoanalysis, as well as in the fields of
political and critical theory, the book brings together contributions from a range of
international experts to demonstrate the dynamic relationship between Marx and
Lacan, as well as illuminating “untranslatable points” which may offer productive
tension between the two. The entries trace the trajectory of Lacan’s appropriation
of Marx’s concepts and analyses how they were questioned, criticized, and
reworked by Lacan, accounting for the wide reach of two thinkers and worlds in
constant homology. Each entry also discusses psychoanalytic debates relating to
the concept and seeks to refine the clinical scope of Marx’s work, demonstrating
its impact on the social and individual dimensions of Lacanian clinical practice.
With a practical and structured approach, The Marx through Lacan Vocabulary
will appeal to psychoanalysts and researchers in a range of fields, including
political science, cultural studies, and philosophy.

Christina Soto van der Plas is professor of Latin American Literature at Santa
Clara University, USA.

Edgar Miguel Juárez-Salazar is a professor of Social Psychology at Universidad

Autónoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco (UAM-X), Mexico.

Carlos Gómez Camarena is a professor at Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico.

David Pavón-Cuéllar is a professor at Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás

de Hidalgo (UMSNH), Mexico.
The Marx through Lacan
Vocabulary

A Compass for Libidinal and Political

Economies

Edited by Christina Soto van der Plas,

Edgar Miguel Juárez-Salazar,
Carlos Gómez Camarena and
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Contents

Abbreviations x
Contributors xviii
Acknowledgements xxv
Preface: Marx’s homologous, Lacan xxvi
CHRISTINA SOTO VAN DER PLAS, EDGAR MIGUEL JUÁREZ-SALAZAR,
CARLOS GÓMEZ CAMARENA AND DAVID PAVÓN-CUÉLLAR
Series preface for The Marx through Lacan Vocabulary:
A Compass for Libidinal and Political Economies xl

1 Alienation 1
BEN GOOK AND DOMINIEK HOENS

2 Automatism 16
ELENA BISSO

3 Bourgeoisie 23
CARLOS ANDRÉS UMAÑA GONZÁLEZ

4 Capitalism 31
ANDREJA ZEVNIK

5 Communism 45
IAN PARKER

6 Consumption 55
AGUSTINA SAUBIDET

7 Economy/Oikonomia 63
YAHYA M. MADRA AND CEREN ÖZSELÇUK
viii Contents

8 Freedom/liberty 74
ROQUE FARRÁN

9 History 85
ADRIAN JOHNSTON

10 Ideology 96
NATALIA ROMÉ

11 Imperialism 102
LIVIO BONI

12 Labour/work 110
SAMO TOMŠIČ

13 Market 126
CHRISTIAN INGO LENZ DUNKER

14 Master/tyrant 134
FABIANA PARRA

15 Materialism 142
DAVID PAVÓN-CUÉLLAR

16 Money 153
PIERRE BRUNO

17 Politics 162
CARLOS GÓMEZ CAMARENA AND EDGAR MIGUEL JUÁREZ-SALAZAR

18 Proletarian/labourer/worker 177
SILVIA LIPPI

19 Revolution 188
RICARDO ESPINOZA LOLAS

20 Segregation 197
JORGE ALEMÁN AND CARLOS GÓMEZ CAMARENA

21 Slavery 214
JUAN PABLO LUCCHELLI AND TODD MCGOWAN
 Contents ix

22 Society 225
EDGAR MIGUEL JUÁREZ-SALAZAR

23 Superstructure 239
DANIELA DANELINCK AND MARIANO NICOLÁS CAMPOS

24 Surplus-jouissance 246
NADIA BOU-ALI

25 Uneasiness/discontent/unhappiness 256
NADIR LARA JUNIOR

26 Value 266
JEAN-PIERRE CLÉRO

Annex I. Transliterations 276

Annex II. What is a matheme? Four discourses and
mathematics in Lacan 285
DANIELA DANELINCK AND CARLOS GÓMEZ CAMARENA

Index 291
Contributors

Jorge Alemán is an Argentinian psychoanalyst and writer living in Madrid. He is

a member of the World Association of Psychoanalysis. He is currently the director
of the Lacanian journal Lacan emancipa (Lacan Emancipates). He has published
Ideología (NED/Página 12, 2021), En la frontera. Sujeto y capitalismo (Gedisa,
2014), and Horizontes neoliberales en la subjetividad (Grama, 2016).

Elena Bisso teaches psychoanalysis and holds a PhD in psychology at University

of Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina. She practises psychoanalysis. Her PhD thesis
proposes a response to the objection that Deleuze made to Lacan on the univocity
of the unconscious in 1969, published as Lacan, Deleuze y Lalangue (Prometeo,
2017). Her research interests include Freud, Lacan, and their intersection with
education and labour studies.

Livio Boni is a psychoanalyst, PhD in psychopathology, translator, and researcher

living in Paris. Currently he teaches at Collège international de philosophie. He
has published L’inconscio post-coloniale. Geopolitica della psicoanalisi (Mimesis,
2018) and La vie psychique du racisme (with Sophie Mendelsohn, La Découverte,
2021). He is also a member of the editorial committee of the journal Actuel Marx.

Nadia Bou-Ali is Assistant Professor and Director of Civilization Studies

Program at the American University in Beirut. She practises psychoanalysis in
Beirut. Her research interests include intellectual history, psychoanalysis, and
critical theory. She has co-edited the book Lacan contra Foucault (Bloomsbury,
2019) and authored the book Psychoanalysis and the Love of Arabic (Edinburgh
University Press, 2020).

Pierre Bruno is a psychoanalyst based in Paris. He is a former professor of psy-

choanalysis at the University of Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis, and he is a mem-
ber of the psychoanalytic association Le pari de Lacan (Lacan’s Wager) and the
editorial board of the journal Psychanalyse.

Mariano Nicolás Campos is a PhD candidate in philosophy at Universidad de

Buenos Aires, Argentina. His research interests are Marx’s theory of fetishism and
 Contributors xix

French and German reception of Marx in the 20th century. Currently he is a pro-
fessor at Universidad de Buenos Aires. He teaches on the relation between Hegel
and Marx and on contemporary authors like Sohn-Rethel, Debord, and Žižek. He
has coordinated seminars in hospital institutions on Marxism and Lacanian psy-
choanalysis. He is the author of the book El desciframiento del mercado: brillo,
automatismo y lógica en Karl Marx (2021, Prometeo Libros).

Jean-Pierre Cléro is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Rouen

Normandy, France, and Director of the Centre Bentham (Sciences Po, Paris). His
areas of research are mathematics, classical English philosophy, and medical eth-
ics. He has translated many books by Bentham, Stuart Mill, Moore, and Harsanyi.
He has also published books such as Lacan in the English Language (Aguincourt,
2020), Lacan: Y a-t-il une philosophie de Lacan? (Ellipses, 2015), Le vocabulaire
de Lacan (Ellipses, 2012), and Calcul moral ou comment raisonner en éthique
(A. Colin, 2004).

Daniela Danelinck is a PhD candidate in philosophy at Universidad de Buenos

Aires, Argentina. She has a doctoral scholarship at the Institute Dr. Emilio
Ravignani (CONICET). A self-proclaimed “theoretical psychoanalyst”, she has
written numerous articles on theoretical or “ultra-lay psychoanalysis”. The sub-
ject of her current research is the problem of causality involved in Lacan’s theory
of discourses. She has published Debería darte vergüenza. Ensayo sobre álgebra
lacanaiana (Heterónimos, 2018). She is also a professor at Universidad Nacional
de Tres de Febrero, Argentina, a member of Entrevenir, and co-coordinator of the
Laboratory of Politics of the Unconscious.

Christian Ingo Lenz Dunker is a Brazilian psychoanalyst and full-time

professor at Psychology Institute at USP. He is an Analyst Member of
School (AME) of the Forum of the Lacanian Field. He is currently coordi-
nating the Laboratory of Social Theory, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis of
the USP. He is the author of Pasión de la ignorancia (Contracorrente, 2020),
Transformaciones de la intimidad (Ubu, 2017), and Structure and Constitution
of Psychoanalytic Clinic (Karnac, 2010). He has won twice the Jabuti Prize
in Brazil.

Ricardo Espinoza Lolas is a Chilean philosopher, writer, and critical theorist.

He is currently a full-time professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica in Chile,
where he teaches contemporary philosophy. He has published books such as Žižek
Reloaded: Políticas de lo radical (Akal, 2018), NosOtros: Manual para disolver
el capitalismo (Trotta, 2019), and ¡Hegel Hoy! (Herder, 2020).

Roque Farrán practises philosophy in Córdoba, Argentina. He is currently a

researcher at Political Theory Studies Program (CIECS-CONICET) where he
directs the research group on Materialist Thinking. He has published several books
such as Badiou y Lacan: El anudamiento del sujeto (Prometeo, 2014), El uso
xx Contributors

de los saberes (Borde Perdido, 2018), and Populismo, Feminismo, Psicoanálisis

(Prometeo, 2020).

Carlos Gómez Camarena is a practising psychoanalyst and a member of the

Forum of the Lacanian Field in Mexico City. He is a full-time professor and
researcher at the Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City. His research
revolves around mathematics, 20th-century French philosophy, and psychoa-
nalysis. Currently he is co-directing in Mexico the international research project
‘Extimacies: Critical Theory from the Global South’, financed by the Andrew
Mellon Grant Foundation.

Ben Gook is Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne. He

was previously an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow at Humboldt
University, Berlin. His research interests include psychoanalysis, affects and
emotions, cultural and social theory, screen studies, and cultural studies. In 2015,
he published Divided Subjects, Invisible Borders: Re-Unified Germany after 1989
(Rowman & Littlefield). He is currently working on alienation and disaffection.

Dominiek Hoens, PhD (Ghent University), teaches philosophy at the Royal

Institute for Theatre, Cinema and Sound (RITCS, Brussels), where he also does
research under the heading of “Capital owes you nothing”. Recent publications
include an edited collection on Marguerite Duras ([Link]), a
chapter on Jacques Lacan in Routledge Handbook of Psychoanalytic Political
Theory (2020), and several articles on Blaise Pascal.

Adrian Johnston is Chair and Distinguished Professor in the Department of

Philosophy at the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque and a faculty mem-
ber at the Emory Psychoanalytic Institute in Atlanta. His most recent book is
Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism, Volume Two: A Weak Nature Alone
(Northwestern University Press, 2019). With Todd McGowan and Slavoj Žižek,
he is a co-editor of the book series Diaeresis at Northwestern University Press.

Edgar Miguel Juárez-Salazar is Professor of Social Psychology at Universidad

Autónoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco (UAM-X), Mexico City. He has published
several books and articles on Lacanian psychoanalysis and critical psychology
and translated Samo Tomšič’s The Labour of Enjoyment (Paradiso, forthcom-
ing) into Spanish. His current research revolves around the archival studies on
guerrilla political movements in Latin America during the 1960s and 1970s using
Lacanian approaches to discourse analysis.

Nadir Lara Junior is a psychoanalyst and independent researcher in Brazil. His

areas of research interest are Lacanian discourse analysis, critical theory, psycho-
analysis, and Marxism. He has co-edited the books Psicanálise e Marxismo: as
violências em tempos de capitalismo (with David Pavón-Cuéllar, Appris, 2018)
 Contributors xxi

and Análise lacaniana de discurso: Subversão e pesquisa crítica (with Christian

Dunker, Appris, 2019).

Silvia Lippi is a psychoanalyst in Paris. She holds a PhD in psychology from

Université de Paris 7. Currently she is a psychologist at the health hospital EPS
Barthélemy Durand in Étampes, France.

Juan Pablo Lucchelli is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst living in Switzerland. He

is a member of the World Association of Psychoanalysis. He is the author of several
books on psychoanalysis, including Introduction à l’objet a de Lacan (Michèle,
2020) and Sexualités en travaux with S. Žižek and J.-C. Milner (Michèle, 2018).

Yahya M. Madra is Associate Professor of Economics at Drew University, NJ,

USA, and is a psychoanalyst-in-training at the National Psychological Association
for Psychoanalysis in New York City. He is a co-editor of the journal Rethinking
Marxism.

Todd McGowan teaches theory and film at the University of Vermont. He is the
author of Universality and Identity Politics (Columbia University Press, 2020),
Emancipation After Hegel (Columbia University Press, 2019), Only a Joke Can
Save Us (Northwestern University Press, 2017), Capitalism and Desire (Columbia
University Press, 2016), and other works. He is the editor of the Film Theory in
Practice series at Bloomsbury and co-editor of the Diaeresis series with Slavoj
Žižek and Adrian Johnston at Northwestern University Press.

Ceren Özselçuk is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at

Boğaziçi University, Istanbul. She is an editorial member and managing editor of
the journal Rethinking Marxism.

Ian Parker is Co-director of the Discourse Unit ([Link]) and a

practising psychoanalyst in Manchester. His books include Psychoanalysis, Clinic
and Context: Subjectivity, History and Autobiography (Routledge, 2019) and,
with David Pavón-Cuéllar, Psychoanalysis and Revolution: Critical Psychology
for Liberation Movements.

Fabiana Parra is a researcher at Instituto de Investigaciones en Humanidades y

Ciencias Sociales (IdIHCS) and advisor at Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones
en Ciencia y Tecnología (CONICET) in Argentina. She is currently teaching
at Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP), Argentina. Her research focuses
on ideology, subjectivation, critical politics, Global South feminisms, and
intersectionality.

David Pavón-Cuéllar is a researcher and full-time professor at Universidad

Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo (UMSNH), Mexico. His latest books
xxii Contributors

include Más allá de la psicología indígena: concepciones mesoamericanas de la

subjetividad (Porrúa, 2021), Zapatismo y subjetividad: más allá de la psicología
(with Mihalis Mentinis, Cátedra Libre, 2020), Psicología crítica: definición, ante-
cedentes, historia y actualidad (Itaca, 2019), and Marxism and Psychoanalysis:
In or Against Psychology? (Routledge, 2017).

Natalia Romé is Chair Professor in Social Sciences at the Universidad de Buenos

Aires, where she is also the Director of the Master in Communication and Culture
Studies. She is Senior Researcher in Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani,
Universidad de Buenos Aires, where she co-coordinates the Program of Critical
Studies. She is one of the foundation members of the Red Latinoamericana de
Estudios Althusserianos, member of the editing board of Demarcaciones, and
is part of the Organizing Committee of Althusserian Studies Conferences since
2009. She has also published La posición materialista. El pensamiento de Louis
Althusser entre la práctica teórica y la práctica política (Edulp: La Plata, 2015)
and For Theory: Althusser and the Politics of Time (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021).

Agustina Saubidet is a psychoanalyst. She teaches and holds a fellowship at the

University of Buenos Aires (UBA). The subject of her research for her PhD is
the clinical consequences of incest in adults from anthropological, philosophical,
and psychoanalytical perspectives. She won the Psychology Faculty Prize 2018 at
UBA for her essay “The Anthropological Criticism of the Oedipus Complex: Its
Contributions”. She works as a consultant and trainer at several health institutions
in Argentina.

Christina Soto van der Plas is Adjunct Lecturer at Santa Clara University,
California. She has a PhD in Romance studies from Cornell University. She has
published several articles and essays on Latin American literature in national and
international journals. Her non-fiction book, Curaçao, costa de cemento pueblo
de prisión (FETA, 2019), won the National Prize for Young Chronicle in Mexico.
She is also translator of Alenka Zupančič into Spanish for Paradiso Editores. She
is currently obtaining her licence to practise counseling psychology and is inter-
ested in psychoanalysis. Her book A Poetics of Transliterature in Latin America
is forthcoming. In her current research project, she is focusing on tracing the cor-
pus, project, and definition of “Latin American Antiphilosophies”.

Samo Tomšič obtained his PhD in philosophy at the University of Ljubljana,

Slovenia. He is currently research associate at the Humboldt University of Berlin,
Germany, and visiting professor at the University of Ljubljana. His research areas
comprise structuralism, psychoanalysis, political philosophy, and contemporary
European philosophy. Recent publications include The Capitalist Unconscious:
Marx and Lacan (Verso, 2015) and The Labour of Enjoyment: Towards a Critique
of Libidinal Economy (August Verlag, 2019).
 Contributors xxiii

Carlos Andrés Umaña González is a practising psychoanalyst. He was a

researcher at the Institute of Social Investigations of the University of Costa Rica.
Currently he is the Executive Director of Fundamentes Foundation and creator
of the programme “Prevention Houses for Listening and Developing Art Skills
for the Youth in Risk” recognized in 2020 with the National Youth Award “Jorge
Debravo” by the Ministry of Culture of Costa Rica. His research focuses on the
constitution of subjectivity in the neoliberal period and the relationship between
politics and psychoanalysis.

Andreja Zevnik is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Manchester.

Her research is inspired by psychoanalysis, continental philosophy, and critical
race theory and mainly focuses on the production of subjectivities and different
political imaginaries in acts of resistance amongst various marginalized groups.
Her publications include Jacques Lacan Between Psychoanalysis and Politics
(with Tomšič, Routledge 2015), Lacan and Deleuze: A Disjunctive Synthesis
(with Nedoh, Edinburgh University Press 2017), and Politics of Anxiety (with
Eklund and Guittet, Rowman & Littlefield, 2017).

Transliteration contributors

Abdallah El Ayach is a researcher at the American University of Beirut working

on the problem of language and social mediation in relation to rational cognition
and self-consciousness. His research concentrates on Lacanian psychoanalysis,
Marxism, and American pragmatism. He also works on the problem of transla-
tion of modern philosophy into Arabic, focusing on the translations of German
Idealism. He has worked on developing a database, under the name Naqd, for
critical theory in Arabic including both translations and monographs.

Hidemoto Makise is Associate Professor of Life Health Science at Chubu

University, Aichi, Japan. He practises psychoanalysis and is one of the directors
of Lacanian Society of Japan. He is the author of several articles nf psychoanaly-
sis and the book Psychoanalysis and Drawings (Seishin Shobo, 2015).

Maria Melnikova is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the Department of

Clinical Psychology, Conflictology and Psychoanalysis, Udmurt State University
(Izhevsk, Russia). She is also an editor and translator for the ERGO publishing
house, which specializes in the publication of books on the humanities, primarily
on psychoanalysis.

Sergey Sirotkin is Professor of Psychology, Head of the Department of Clinical

Psychology, Conflictology and Psychoanalysis, Udmurt State University (Izhevsk,
Russia). He is also the director of the ERGO publishing house, focused on pub-
lishing books in the humanities, primarily psychoanalysis.
xxiv Contributors

Tzuchien Tho is a philosopher and historian of science. He is currently lecturer

at the University of Bristol. Previously, He has been affiliated with the Jan van
Eyck Academie in Maastricht (NL), the École Normale Supérieure in Paris (Rue
D’Ulm), the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin), Berlin-
Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, the Institute for Research in the Humanities
(University of Bucharest), and the University of Milan. He is currently working
on a research project on causality in 18th-century physics, focusing on the devel-
opment of analytical mechanics. He is also currently working on issues related to
Badiou’s mathematical ontology, the philosophy of algebra, Leibniz’s reception
in the 20th century, and the critique of contextualism as historical methodology.
Acknowledgements

Many thanks are due to our editor at Routledge, Ian Parker, for entrusting us with
the task of compiling this vocabulary and for his invaluable help during the vari-
ous stages of its preparation. Concluding this project would have been impossible
without the assistance of Ana Claudia Flores Ames and Carla Tirado Morttiz.
We are also greatly indebted to Jean-Pierre Cléro for his help on our database of
implicit and explicit quotes on Marx in Lacan’s seminars and écrits. This database
was the core and the origin of this vocabulary.
This vocabulary has been part of the international research project ‘Extimacies:
Critical Theory from the Global South’, financed by the Andrew Mellon Grant
Foundation (Early Career Program). Many thanks to our colleagues Surti Singh,
Ian Morrison, Nadia Bou-Ali, Alejandro Cerda-Rueda, Sami Khatib, and Silvio
Carneiro.
Last but not least, we would like to thank all contributors for their devotion,
originality, and erudition. Any remaining mistakes, conscious and unconscious,
should be attributed solely to the editors of this volume.
Christina Soto wants to thank Cynthia for her patience throughout the process.
Edgar Juárez wants to dedicate this vocabulary to Andrea Huerta for her love
and support.
Carlos Gómez Camarena wants to dedicate this vocabulary to his father, a
strange businessman who has voted all his life for the Communist Party.
Series preface for The Marx through
Lacan Vocabulary: A Compass for Libidinal
and Political Economies

Series preface
This book is an intervention, designed to change the world, and a resource,
designed to enable others to take this work forward. It is already an intervention,
cutting through the many attempts of psychoanalysts and political theorists to
reduce one domain to the other. It is now, in this form as a capacious contradic-
tory text, an invaluable resource for future mapping of the overlapping territories
of subjectivity and capitalism.
Marxism was, from the beginning, contemporaneous with psychoanalysis, and
its critique of political economy was paralleled by the critique of the subjective
economy of life under capitalism that Freud and then Lacan encountered. It is
for that reason that Marxism so often appears to be analogous to psychoanaly-
sis, particularly to Lacanian psychoanalysis which is attuned to the operations of
language structured through the Symbolic. This Symbolic order structures and
warrants the forms of competitive individualism that psychoanalysts encounter in
the clinic. Marxism, like so many forms of psychoanalysis, is not only a tool of
critique, but is much of the time neutralized and absorbed, recuperated, such that
our Imaginary grasp of it does, indeed, turn it into a worldview, making it function
as if it were a metalanguage. This book clears a way through the Imaginary lures
of ideology, whether that is Lacanian ideology or Marxism turned into ideology.
The book reveals contradictions as well as apparent complementary relationships,
contradictions that speak of the Real in the realm of subjectivity and political
economy. This book enables us to navigate old terrain, and notice what we need
to take into account in order to position ourselves as Lacanians who are also nec-
essarily Marxist.
Although this is, formally-speaking, an “edited” book, compiled by Christina
Soto van der Plas, Edgar Miguel Juárez-Salazar, Carlos Gómez Camarena, and
David Pavón-Cuéllar, it is, in fact, a collective project, and so it is as profoundly
Marxist as it is psychoanalytic. It is collective in a number of respects. It relies on
the commitment of colleagues who are committed to Marxist and Lacanian prac-
tice, a shared commitment to two systems of thought that were each themselves
designed to transform what they described. It is grounded in an immense prior
work of close reading and collation of points of connection between Marx and
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Lacan so the authors of different elements were here able to already be oriented,
with compass in hand to map out the terrain.
The book is global in scope, both in its planning and in its execution, with a
detailed attention to the way language, fractured into different languages, geo-
graphically-historically constructed lines of the Symbolic, enables us to speak of
the world but also misleads us about its underlying nature. This book speaks of
“libidinal and political economies” that are located at the intersection between dif-
ferent languages, this English edition accompanied by publication in different lan-
guages. It is true to the internationalist spirit of both psychoanalysis and Marxism.
It is internationalist without succumbing to the temptations of globalization, of the
colonization of one realm of thought, or one form of culture, over another.
The wager of the book is that there is a homology between Lacan and Marx,
one that has wide-ranging consequences for social theory and clinical practice. It
is the relationship between those two systems of thought, of theory and practice
interwoven, that is at stake here, a relationship the editors define as a close read-
ing of Marx through Lacan. This is not to reinstate Lacanian psychoanalysis as
a worldview or metalanguage through which various precepts of Marx can be
reinterpreted, as if we were bad analysts injecting meaning into the words of an
analysand, nor, for that matter, to treat Marxism as a metalanguage that could
adjust Lacan to the reality of the capitalist society in which psychoanalysis was
born and now thrives. Rather, in line with authentic Lacanian psychoanalysis,
these explorations of key concepts enable Marx to speak, to speak again, to speak
truth about a world that routinely and insidiously separates subjectivity from it.
Psychoanalytic clinical and theoretical work circulates through multiple inter-
secting antagonistic symbolic universes. This series opens connections between
different cultural sites in which Lacanian work has developed in distinctive ways,
in forms of work that question the idea that there could be single correct read-
ing and application. The Lines of the Symbolic in Psychoanalysis series provides
a reflexive reworking of psychoanalysis that transmits Lacanian writing from
around the world, steering a course between the temptations of a metalanguage
and imaginary reduction, between the claim to provide a god’s eye view of psy-
choanalysis and the idea that psychoanalysis must everywhere be the same. And
the elaboration of psychoanalysis in the symbolic here grounds its theory and
practice in the history and politics of the work in a variety of interventions that
touch the real.
Ian Parker
Manchester Psychoanalytic Matrix
Index

Page references in italics indicate figures.

Page numbers followed by ‘n’ refer to notes.

absolutization 37, 116–121, 130 animality 215

Adorno, T. W. 203 antagonism: and alienation 3; and
Alemán, J. xxviii, xxxvii, 16, 20, 23, 288 capitalism 43; and communism 52; and
alienation 1–14; and automatism politics 162–164, 169; and proletarian/
17, 21; and communism 45; and labourer/worker 178; and society 228,
economy/oikonomia 64, 67; and 232–233; and surplus-jouissance 248
freedom/liberty 76; and ideology anti-communism 46, 52
98–100; and imperialism 108; and anti-humanist 98, 178
market 126, 128, 132; and politics 164, anti-philosophy 23, 143
168, 171; and proletarian/labourer/ anxiety 9, 20–21, 183, 260, 270
worker 179, 180, 183; and society appearance 11, 40, 65, 83n2, 97, 99, 107,
231; and superstructure 241, 244; and 131, 147, 249
surplus-jouissance 252–253; translation Arbeit 110, 113, 114, 122n2; arbeitgeber
of 282–283 135; Arbeitsanforderung 123n12;
Althusser, L. xxvi, 6, 14, 16, 18, 56, 65, Arbeitskraft 115; Durcharbeiten 117;
68, 86, 92–93, 100, 163, 173, 203, 241 Mehrarbeit 116; Traumarbeit 122;
analysis xxvi; and alienation 2; and Witzarbeit 123n9
bourgeoisie 23, 25; and communism Aristotle 83n1, 123n3, 135, 149, 155, 162
45–46, 50; and consumption 61; and Augustine 9
economy/oikonomia 63, 65, 70; and automatism xxx, 16–22
freedom/liberty 74, 82; and history
85–86, 88, 90, 92, 94; and imperialism Badiou, A. xxxvii, 80, 86, 286
102, 104; and labour/work 117, 122; and Balibar, É. 7, 96
master/tyrant 135; and materialism 146; Bataille, G. 161
and money 155–158, 161; and politics benefits 43, 50, 58, 60–61, 67, 198
162, 169; and proletarian/labourer/ Benjamin, W. 189–190, 203
worker 177, 180–184; and segregation Bentham, J. 50, 66, 171, 174, 230,
198, 200, 208–209; and society 233; 266–268, 270–273
and superstructure 242; and surplus- Bergler, E. 171
jouissance 246–247, 250, 254; and Bianchi, P. 41
uneasiness/discontent/unhappiness 258, Bildung 221
262; and value 269, 272 Bion, W. 168, 209
Analyst’s discourse see discourse of the biopolitics 70, 210
Analyst body: and alienation 4, 8–9; and automatism
animal 136, 165, 215, 227, 249, 259 17; and bourgeoisie 27; and capitalism
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37; and consumption 57–58, 60–61; and and uneasiness/discontent/unhappiness

economy/oikonomia 64, 69; and labour/ 261–262
work 113, 115–119, 121; and master/ Capitalist discourse 288, 289; and
tyrant 137; and materialism 150–151; and automatism 16–22; and bourgeoisie 28;
proletarian/labourer/worker 179, 181; and capitalism 31, 37, 40, 40–44; and
and revolution 192; and segregation 202; economy/oikonomia 64, 69–70; and
and slavery 215; and society 234, 236; imperialism 104; and market 131; and
and surplus-jouissance 247, 251, 254; money 160; and segregation 197, 204–207
and uneasiness/discontent/unhappiness Cassin, B. xxx, xxxi, xxxiv, 75
257, 260–261; and value 273 castration: and capitalism 33, 36–37,
Bossuet, J.-B. 143 42; and money 156, 158, 160–161;
bourgeoisie 23–29; and alienation and segregation 204, 207; and society
1, 3, 6; and communism 49, 52; 236–237; and surplus-jouissance 249,
and consumption 58, 60; and 252, 254; and uneasiness/discontent/
economy/oikonomia 66–68, 71; and unhappiness 257, 261–263, 265
market 128; and master/tyrant 136; and citizen 235, 241, 259
money 154, 156; and politics 163–164, citizenship 157
169, 174; and proletarian/labourer/ civilization: and alienation 2; and
worker 177; and revolution 188, 192; automatism 20; and bourgeoisie 27–28;
and segregation 206, 210; and society and ideology 98; and segregation 204;
225, 227, 229–230, 234–237; and and society 235; and surplus-jouissance
superstructure 240, 242 247; and uneasiness/discontent/
bureaucracy 38, 43, 108 unhappiness 259
bureaucratic 48, 206 civil society 83n1, 145, 165, 235,
237n8, 239
capital: and alienation 4, 5; and class: and bourgeoisie 24, 25, 27, 29; and
automatism 16; and bourgeoisie capitalism 42–43; and communism
24, 29; and capitalism 35, 39, 40, 45–46, 52; and market 128; and master/
42; and consumption 57, 58; and tyrant 136–137, 139; and materialism
economy/oikonomia 69; and labour/ 143; and politics 162, 167–168, 173;
work 117, 118, 121; and market and proletarian/labourer/worker 177;
126, 132; and master/tyrant 137; and and segregation 198–199; and society
materialism 146, 147; and money 229, 230, 233
154, 159; and politics 164, 165, 166, class consciousness 34, 183
170, 174; and proletarian/labourer/ clinical: and alienation 9; and automatism
worker 177; and revolution 193, 194; 18, 21; and consumption 56, 58; and
and segregation 199, 210; and society economy/oikonomia 71; and freedom/
234; and surplus-jouissance 249; and liberty 78; and slavery 214
uneasiness/discontent/unhappiness 261, colonialism 58, 60, 105–106; post-
262, 264; and value 267, 268, 269, 270 colonialism 102
capitalism 31–44; and consumption 55, commerce 24, 130, 161, 229, 235–237
58–59; and economy/oikonomia 64, commodity/commodities: and alienation
70–71; and imperialism 104–106; and 4, 6; and automatism 20–21; and
labour/work 111, 118, 120–122; and capitalism 32, 37, 42, 43; and
market 127, 130, 132; and materialism communism 50; and consumption
146; and money 157–158; and politics 55–58, 61; and economy/oikonomia
164, 169, 174; and proletarian/ 66–67, 70–71; and ideology 99; and
labourer/worker 178, 180–184, 188; labour/work 115; and market 127,
and revolution 191, 193–194; and 130–131; and materialism 146; and
segregation 198, 200, 202, 204, 207– money 154–157; and politics 163–166,
208, 210; and society 235; and surplus- 169; and society 230, 233, 235; and
jouissance 251, 255; translation of 281; surplus-jouissance 248–249, 254; and
 Index 293

uneasiness/discontent/unhappiness 261; culture: and communism 45–46, 52; and

and value 268, 272 consumption 56; and history 85; and
communism xxx, 45–53; and alienation 5; society 225, 228–229, 231–236; and
and freedom/liberty 80; and proletarian/ uneasiness/discontent/unhappiness
labourer/worker 180–181, 183–184; and 259–261, 265
segregation 198; and society 234, 237; and
superstructure 242; translation of 280, 281 Dasein 204
communists: and alienation 5; and Davis, A. 139
economy/oikonomia 71; and proletarian/ death: and automatism 22; and
labourer/worker 179–184 communism 46, 50; and freedom/liberty
competition 104, 199 78; and master/tyrant 135–137; and
compulsion 68, 70, 111, 247–249 money 159; and politics 166, 169, 170;
conflict: and communism 49, 51; and and revolution 195; and segregation
history 87; and labour/work 111–112, 206; and slavery 221, 223; and surplus-
119; and market 128; and politics jouissance 249; and uneasiness/
162; and superstructure 239–240; and discontent/unhappiness 257, 259–260;
surplus-jouissance 248 and value 269
connaissance 251 death drive 159, 249, 257, 260, 284
consciousness: and communism 49; decolonial 139
and ideology 97–98; and labour/work decolonialism xxxvii
112–113; and master/tyrant 135–136; dehumanization 17
and materialism 145; and politics 164, Dejours, C. 21
166; and proletarian/labourer/worker Deleuze, G. 55
182; and slavery 221; and society 226, democracy 191, 202, 203
231; and superstructure 240 Democritus 151, 228
consumption xxx, 55–61; and automatism deprivation 41, 58, 66, 120, 207
22; and bourgeoisie 28; and Descartes, R. 8, 28, 79, 119, 151, 205,
economy/oikonomia 67, 70; and labour/ 235, 277
work 115, 119–122; and market 128; desire: and alienation 9, 12–13; and
and money 159; and politics 162; and automatism 16, 18, 20–21; and
segregation 199, 202; and slavery 222; bourgeoisie 25; and capitalism 33–34,
and value 270 38, 41, 43; and consumption 59;
contingency xxi, 169, 180, 189, 196, 254 and economy/oikonomia 65–66; and
contradiction 3, 5, 40, 52, 119, 120, 139, freedom/liberty 78, 82; and history 94;
163, 164, 186n10, 226, 241 and imperialism 105; and labour/work
Coumet, E. 272 110–112, 116; and market 126–127;
crises 21, 174, 259 and master/tyrant 135–136, 138; and
critique/critical theory: and alienation 1–4, money 157–159; and politics 162,
6–7, 9, 14; and automatism 17; and 170–172; and revolution 189, 191,
bourgeoisie 25–26, 28; and capitalism 195; and segregation 209–210; and
31–32, 35–37, 44; and communism 45, slavery 215–222, 224; and society
51; and economy/oikonomia 63–70; 231, 233–236; and surplus-jouissance
and history 87; and ideology 97–101; 246–248, 250–254; and uneasiness/
and imperialism 108; and labour/work discontent/unhappiness 259, 262, 264;
110–111, 113–115, 118–119, 121; and and value 269
market 126, 128; and master/tyrant 137, de Vos, J. 203
139; and materialism 143–146; and dialectic: and bourgeoisie 24; and
money 154; and politics 162–164; and capitalism 34; and economy/oikonomia
revolution 194; and segregation 201, 67; and freedom/liberty 77, 80, 82;
203; and society 225–226, 228, 230; and history 92; and master/tyrant 134,
and superstructure 241; and uneasiness/ 136–137, 139; and materialism 148; and
discontent/unhappiness 258 politics 166; and proletarian/labourer/
294 Index

worker 184; and revolution 191–192; society 229, 232, 236; and uneasiness/
and segregation 200–201; and slavery discontent/unhappiness 263; and
214–215, 217, 219–221; and society value 272
231, 233–236; and surplus-jouissance Dolar, M. 252
246, 253; and uneasiness/discontent/ drive: and capitalism 41, 43;
unhappiness 259, 260 and communism 52; and
dictatorship 184 economy/oikonomia 66–67, 70; and
disappearance xxix, 11, 204, 252, 274n6 labour/work 111–119, 121; and money
discontent see uneasiness/discontent/ 157–158; and politics 170, 172–173;
unhappiness and segregation 204; and society 228,
discourse of the Analyst 19, 44, 233; and surplus-jouissance 248,
250–252, 251 249, 254; and uneasiness/discontent/
discourse of the Capitalist see Capitalist unhappiness 257, 260
discourse
discourse of the Hysteric 43–44, 204, economy/oikonomia xl, 63–71; and
250–252, 251, 262–263 alienation 1, 3, 4; and bourgeoisie
discourse of the Master: and automatism 25–31; and capitalism 32, 35–37, 45;
20; and capitalism 37–41, 38, 43; and communism 50; and consumption
and economy/oikonomia 69–70; and 59–60; and imperialism 104; and labour/
imperialism 104; and market 130–131; work 111, 114, 116, 118–119, 122; and
and master/tyrant 138; and surplus- market 128, 133; and materialism 146;
jouissance 250–252, 251, 254; and and money 154, 156–157, 161–162; and
uneasiness/discontent/unhappiness 257, politics 163–166, 169, 172–173; and
261–265 revolution 194; and segregation 199;
discourse of the University: and and society 226; translation of 281–282;
bourgeoisie 27; and capitalism 38, 38– and uneasiness/discontent/unhappiness
41, 43–44; and economy/oikonomia 70; 232–234
and ideology 101; and imperialism 108; ecosocial 46
and market 131; and segregation 197, education xxxv, 2, 19, 39, 229
204, 206–208; and surplus-jouissance ego: and alienation 9–10; and communism
250–252, 251, 254; and uneasiness/ 52; and economy/oikonomia 64–65,
discontent/unhappiness 262, 264; and 67; and segregation 200–201, 209;
value 273 super-ego 159, 210, 260, 262; and
discourses, four 285–289, 289; and superstructure 241; and surplus-
automatism 16, 20; and capitalism jouissance 247, 252–253; and
37, 39; and consumption 55; and uneasiness/discontent/unhappiness 256,
economy/oikonomia 64, 69–70; and 259–260
imperialism 103; and market 126, Einstein, A. 49
129, 132; and politics 171, 174; and emancipation 41, 68, 106, 163, 164, 189,
segregation 206; and surplus-jouissance 198
250, 251 Engels, F. 3, 6–7, 13, 24–25, 29, 48, 66,
dispossession 39, 103, 179, 184, 251 97–98, 136, 145–148, 177, 179, 226,
dissatisfaction 37, 116, 121, 182 229, 233, 235, 240; see also Marx, Karl,
division: and alienation 3; and (and Friedrich Engels)
automatism 17; and consumption 56; enjoyment: and alienation 9, 12–13;
and economy/oikonomia 63, 66–67; and capitalism 32–33, 36–37,
and ideology 97–98; and imperialism 41–43; and consumption 55, 57,
105; and labour/work 115; and market 60–61; and economy/oikonomia 70; and
126, 128, 131; and materialism imperialism 104; and labour/work 114,
149; and politics 164–165, 166; and 116, 118–122; and market 126, 128–
proletarian/labourer/worker 178, 181; 129; and master/tyrant 137–138; and
and segregation 197–199, 204; and materialism 144, 146–147; and money
 Index 295

159–160; and proletarian/labourer/ 156–158, 160; and politics 164, 169;

worker 181; and segregation 201–204, and surplus-jouissance 254
209–211; and society 225, 233–236; feudalism 24, 68, 134, 136, 147
and surplus-jouissance 248, 249–255; Feuerbach 3, 5, 91, 100, 163, 236
translation of 279; and uneasiness/ Fichte, J. G. 8, 143
discontent/unhappiness 257, 259–266; fiction: and consumption 59; and
and value 269–270, 272–273 economy/oikonomia 66–67; and history
Entäusserung 2, 4, 283 87, 93, 94; and politics 170, 174; and
Entfremdung 2, 3, 186n10, 283 slavery 219; and society 230, 232, 236;
entrepreneurs 28, 268 and value 266–267
entropy: and capitalism 33; and Fink, B. 70, 168, 282
economy/oikonomia 71; and labour/ First International 47, 198
work 118, 120–121; and society Foucault, M. 26, 55, 174, 207
233–234; and surplus-jouissance 249, freedom/liberty 74–82; and bourgeoisie
252, 254 25–29; and capitalism 34; and
Epicurus 228 economy/oikonomia 64, 67, 69; and
exchange: and capitalism 34, 39; master/tyrant 139; and politics 163–164;
and consumption 55–61; and and revolution 195; and slavery 221;
economy/oikonomia 65, 70–71; and and society 230; translation of 281;
labour/work 115; and market 127–128, and uneasiness/discontent/unhappiness
130–132; and master/tyrant 137; and 261, 263
materialism 146–147, 150; and money Freire, P. 139
154–156; and politics 163–165; and Freud, S. xxvii, xxix, xxxii, xl, 10, 32,
segregation 198–199, 210; and society 34, 36, 49–51, 53, 55, 60, 63–65, 70,
226, 232–237; and surplus-jouissance 85–94, 98, 110–116, 118–119, 150–151,
254; and uneasiness/discontent/ 156–159, 164, 168–173, 178, 189–190,
unhappiness 261; and value 268 200, 203, 228, 232, 236, 243, 246–249,
exploitation: and alienation 5; and 252, 254, 256–260, 262–264, 269, 281,
capitalism 32, 39, 41–42; and 284, 287–288
communism 46; and consumption Freudianism xxvii, 28, 31, 36, 52,
57–58, 61; and economy/oikonomia 66; 64–65, 85–90, 110–116, 119, 122,
and ideology 98; and labour/work 111, 127–128, 150–151, 153, 158, 160, 168,
122; and master/tyrant 139; and money 173, 177, 225, 231, 233, 256–258,
154, 157, 160; and politics 164–166, 263, 269
169–170; and proletarian/labourer/ Freudo-Marxism xxvii, 1, 49, 86, 153
worker 179–180; and segregation 197,
199–200, 206, 210; and society 227, gaze 42–43, 59, 169, 204, 221
234, 236–237; and superstructure 240; Gesellschaft 237n8
and uneasiness/discontent/unhappiness Gramsci, A. xxxvi, 241
260–261, 264
extimacy/extimate 69, 100, 210, 228, Hardt, M. 211
283–284 Hegel, G. W. F. 2–3, 5, 7–8, 55, 74–80,
91, 94, 134–136, 163, 166, 188–189,
Fanon, F. xxxvii 190–191, 195, 201, 214, 219–222, 252,
fantasy 10, 25, 40, 69, 94, 113, 126, 131, 259, 261, 269, 277, 288
132, 182, 186n19, 202, 203, 211, 247, Hegelianism xxxvii, 4, 8, 34, 38, 49, 52,
248, 252, 254 64, 82, 97–98, 100, 136, 142, 145, 147,
Federici, S. xxxvii, 58 163, 178, 214, 219–221, 223, 231, 239,
feminism xxxvii, 82, 127, 138–139, 194 252, 260, 277, 288
fetishism: and alienation 7; and capitalism hegemonic xxxvi, 139
35; and economy/oikonomia 66, 70; hegemony 86
and ideology 98–100; and money 154, Hirschman, A. O. 266
296 Index

history 85–94; and bourgeoisie 24; and impossible xxvii, xxxvii, 2, 10, 18, 32, 37,
communism 46–48; and ideology 97– 41, 43, 45, 46, 57, 68, 69, 118, 144, 156,
98, 100; and imperialism 107–108; and 168, 208, 227, 236, 237, 244, 255, 286
master/tyrant 136–137; and materialism institutions: and automatism 21; and
143–144, 146, 151; and politics 169; bourgeoisie 26; and capitalism 35;
and proletarian/labourer/worker 184; and communism 47–49, 51–52; and
and revolution 189–191 politics 169, 172; and proletarian/
homosexuality 237 labourer/worker 184; and revolution
hooks, b. 139 189, 193; and segregation 197, 202, 204,
Horkheimer, M. 203 206–208; and society 227–229, 232; and
human rights see rights superstructure 240
Hume, D. 174, 269, 272–273
Hysteric 35, 43, 144, 182, 250–252, 262; Jankélévitch, V. 273
discourse of the Hysteric 43, 250, 262; Johnston, A. 252
Hysteric discourse 43 jouissance: and automatism 18–19;
and bourgeoisie 25, 27, 28; and
idealism 99, 100, 128, 143, 145, 147, 150, capitalism 32–33, 34–35, 38,
163, 186n15 41–44; and consumption 56; and
identification: and alienation 9, 12; and economy/oikonomia 64, 66–69; and
automatism 17; and ideology 100; freedom/liberty 74, 82; and imperialism
and imperialism 105–106; and market 104; and labour/work 114; and
127–128; and politics 166–169; and market 126–130, 133; and master/
proletarian/labourer/worker 183; and tyrant 137–138; and money 159–160;
segregation 200–201, 208–209; and and politics 162, 165, 171, 173; and
society 231, 235; and surplus-jouissance proletarian/labourer/worker 177–178,
247–249, 252–253; translation of 278 180–183, 185; and segregation 210;
ideology 96–101; and alienation 6; and and slavery 221; and society 234, 237;
automatism 18; and bourgeoisie 24, 26, and superstructure 244; translation
29; and economy/oikonomia 71; and of 278–279, 284; and uneasiness/
market 128; and materialism 145–146; discontent/unhappiness 257, 259,
and politics 162; and revolution 193; 262; and value 269, 271–272; see also
and segregation 198, 201, 203; and surplus-jouissance
superstructure 240; translation of 281
illusion: and bourgeoisie 25, 28; and Kant (kantian) 190, 201, 240, 241, 252
capitalism 35; and communism 49–51; Klein, M. 81, 87
and ideology 98, 100; and politics 171, knowledge: and alienation 2, 6; and
174; and society 237; and value 268 automatism 21; and bourgeoisie 24,
imaginary 75–76; and alienation 9–12; 26; and capitalism 38–39, 43–44; and
and economy/oikonomia 64–66, 71; and communism 47; and consumption
freedom/liberty 74; and ideology 96, 58; and economy/oikonomia 69–70;
100; and market 127; and master/tyrant and freedom/liberty 76; and history
137; and materialism 142, 144–145; 85–86, 93; and ideology 97–98; and
and money 161; and politics 163, 166, imperialism 102–103, 108; and labour/
170–171; and segregation 201–203; work 112, 120; and market 126,
and society 227–228, 230–231; and 131–132; and master/tyrant 138; and
superstructure 243; and surplus- materialism 149; and politics 166–167;
jouissance 248–250, 252–253; and and proletarian/labourer/worker 177–
uneasiness/discontent/unhappiness 259, 179, 181–185; and revolution 192, 194;
261; and value 272 and segregation 204–207, 209, 211; and
imperialism 102–108, 172, 194, 197 slavery 219; and society 232, 235–237;
impossibility 20, 41, 49, 68–70, 104, 113, and surplus-jouissance 248–252, 254;
116, 120, 121, 138, 144, 157, 160, 225, and uneasiness/discontent/unhappiness
236, 237, 246–248, 254, 255, 286 256–258, 262
 Index 297

Kojève, A. 8, 52, 107, 134–136, 166, Meaning of the Return to Freud in

174, 188, 190–192, 214–215, 217, Psychoanalysis (FT) 9, 85, 94, 145,
219–220, 288 147, 232; The Function and Field of
Koyré, A. 205 Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis
Kultur 256, 257, 281 (FFS) 10, 33, 76–77, 85, 88, 90–91, 93,
144, 177, 179, 181, 193, 205, 231, 285;
La Boétie, É. de 135 Impromptu n°2 (IM2) 39; The Instance
labourer see proletarian/labourer/worker of the Letter in the Unconscious or
labour/work 110–122; and alienation 3–6; Reason Since Freud (IL) 90, 92, 100,
and automatism 17, 19; and capitalism 232, 242, 244; Intervention au 1re
32, 37, 40, 42–43; and consumption Congrès mondial de psychiatrie (ICM)
56–58; and economy/oikonomia 68, 242–243; Interventions sur l’exposé
70–71; and history 92; and ideology de P. Mathis: “Remarques sur la
97–99; and market 126, 128–131; and fonction de l’argent dans la technique
master/tyrant 138; and materialism analytique” (IEM) 57; Kant with Sade
146; and money 154–156; and politics (KS) 32, 42, 78, 195; Knowledge,
162, 164–166, 170, 173–174, 177; and ignorance, truth and enjoyment (KIT)
segregation 198–200, 210; and society 189; Letter of Dissolution (LD) 56, 171,
225, 228–229, 233–234, 236–237; 257; Lituraterre (LTE) 244; Logical
and surplus-jouissance 248–252, 254; Time and the Assertion of Anticipated
translation of 282; and uneasiness/ Certainty (LT) 166–168; La méprise
discontent/unhappiness 261, 264; and du sujet supposé savoir (MSS) 128;
value 268–269, 272 The Mirror Stage as Formative of the I
Lacan, J.: Aggressiveness in Function as Revealed in Psychoanalytic
Psychoanalysis (AP) 9–10, 137–138, Experience (MS) 8, 166, 230;
166, 259–260; Allocution sur les Monsieur A (MA) 55; Motifs du crime
psychoses de l’enfant (APE) 107, 206; paranoïaque (MDP) 241; Le mythe
An issue of Ones (AIO) 100–101; individuel du névrosé, ou poésie et
Beyond the Reality Principle (BRP) vérité dans la névrose (MIN) 165, 231;
143, 227, 243; Clôture des Journées Le nombre treize et la forme logique
de l’École freudienne de Paris (CDJ) de la suspicion (N13) 209; The Place,
286; Les complexes familiaux dans Origin and End of My Teaching (POE)
la formation de l’individu (CF) 9, 243; Le plaisir et la règle fondamentale
228–229, 241, 243; Conférence à (PRF) 180; Position of the Unconscious
Genève sur le symptôme (CG) 148; (PU) 12, 78, 235; Préface à l’édition
Conférences et entretiens dans des anglaise du Séminaire XI (PEA) 93;
universités nord-américaines (CNA) 56, Preface of one Thesis (PTH) 207–208;
288; Conférence sur la psychanalyse Presentation on Psychical Causality
et la formation du psychiatre (CPP) (PPC) 74–76, 231; Presentation on
107; De la psychose paranoïaque Transference (PT) 59; Proposition du
dans ses rapports avec la personnalité 9 octobre 1967 sur le psychanalyste
(DPP) 7, 26, 226–227; The Direction de l’École (P9O) 26, 128, 169, 204,
of the Treatment and the Principles of 206, 208, 211; La psychiatrie anglaise
Its Power (DTP) 78, 202; Discourse et la guerre (PAG) 168, 206, 209;
to Catholics (DTC) 87; Du discours Psychanalyse et médecine (PEM) 254;
psychanalytique (DDP) 20, 28, 38, 40, Psychoanalysis and Its Teaching (PIT)
40, 70, 160, 204, 251, 287, 288, 289; 88, 92; On a Question Prior to Any
D’une réforme dans son trou (RDT) Possible Treatment of Psychosis (QTP)
207; Écrits (EC) 64; L’etourdit (LE) 77; Radiophonie (RA) 13, 52, 99, 133,
xxxiv, 142, 181, 211, 287; Foundation 149, 151, 160, 204, 243, 264; Remarks
Act (FA) 209, 257–258; Freud Forever: on Daniel Lagache’s Presentation
An Interview with Panorama (FFI) (RDL) 148; Responses to Students of
17, 20; The Freudian Thing or the Philosophy Concerning the Object of
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Psychoanalysis (RSF) 50, 147–148, 50–51, 55, 61, 68, 80, 91–92, 99–100,
159, 203, 243; Science and Truth (ST) 102–103, 115–116, 120, 122, 128–132,
58, 92–93, 147, 170, 178, 201, 205; 136–137, 143–144, 146, 149, 173, 178,
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan. Book 182, 191–192, 194, 202, 210, 236, 240,
I (SI) 85–91, 102, 202, 219, 285; The 260–261, 268, 273; Le Séminaire. Livre
Seminar of Jacques Lacan. Book II XVIII (SXVIII) 56, 92, 108, 147–148,
(SII) xxvi–xxvii, 28, 50, 65, 85–86, 88, 193, 201, 211, 273; Le Séminaire.
90, 233, 250; The Seminar of Jacques Livre XXI (SXXI) 142–144, 149–151,
Lacan. Book III (SIII) 17, 87, 90–91, 258–259; Le Séminaire. Livre XXII
145, 232, 241; The Seminar of Jacques (SXXII) 56, 149; Le Séminaire. Livre
Lacan. Book IV (SIV) 55–56, 58–59, 94, XXIV (SXXIV) 25, 93, 144, 149, 150–
172, 220, 242; The Seminar of Jacques 151; Le Séminaire. Livre XXV (SXXV)
Lacan. Book IX (SIX) 10, 51, 87, 90, 94; 55, 92–93, 145, 272; Le Séminaire.
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan. Book Livre XXVII (SXXVII) 177–178, 184;
V (SV) xxxiii, 8, 55, 85–86, 90, 102, The Situation of Psychoanalysis and
148, 233, 253; The Seminar of Jacques the Training of Psychoanalysts in 1956
Lacan. Book VI (SVI) xxviii, 56–57, (SPT) 87, 91, 169, 208; Of Structure as
66, 94, 233–234, 242; The Seminar of the Of Structure as the Inmixing of an
Jacques Lacan. Book VII (SVII) 50–51, Otherness Prerequisite to Any Subject
58–59, 66–67, 91, 94, 104, 142, 170– Whatever (IMX) 203; On the Subject
171, 209–210, 228, 235; The Seminar Who is Finally in Question (SQ) 150,
of Jacques Lacan. Book VIII (SVIII) 205; The Subversion of the Subject and
50, 52, 87, 91, 93, 214, 219–220; The the Dialectic of Desire in the Freudian
Seminar of Jacques Lacan. Book X Unconscious (SSD) 33, 285, 287; The
(SX) 12, 51–52, 90, 171–172, 286; Symbolic, the Imaginary, and the Real
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan. Book (SIR) 87; Talking to Brick Walls (PAM)
XI (SXI) 11, 51, 67–68, 204–205, 209, 35–37, 92, 206–207, 256, 285–286,
235, 253, 288; The Seminar of Jacques 288; Television (TV) 31, 36, 111, 117,
Lacan. Book XIX (SXIX) 58, 80–81, 88, 150, 170; A Theoretical Introduction
111, 205, 257; The Seminar of Jacques to the Functions of Psychoanalysis
Lacan. Book XVII (SXVII) xxix, 18, in Criminology (FPC) 96, 99–100,
28, 33, 37–39, 42, 69–70, 91, 104–106, 230–231, 260; The Third (TT) 211;
119, 121, 130, 137–138, 143, 159, 171, Variations on the Standard Treatment
179, 188, 191, 194, 200, 204–205, (VST) 85; The Youth of Gide, or the
234–236, 249–254, 261–265, 269, Letter and Desire (YG) 85–86
272, 286–288; The Seminar of Jacques Laclau, E. xxxvii
Lacan. Book XX (SXX) 57, 70–71, 93, lalangue 70, 211, 258–259
130, 143, 147, 149, 151, 202, 204–205, Langer, F. 63
230, 272; The Seminar of Jacques language: and alienation 2–3, 10; and
Lacan. Book XXIII (SXXIII) 71, 211; automatism 16–18; and capitalism 31,
Seminar on “The Purloined Letter” (PL) 33, 36–38; and economy/oikonomia
126, 149, 169, 173; Le Séminaire (S0) 64–65, 67, 70; and history 86–88; and
231; Le Séminaire. Livre IX (SIX) 10, ideology 96, 100; and labour/work
51, 87, 90, 94; Le Séminaire. Livre XII 117; and market 130; and materialism
(SXII) 92, 145, 235; Le Séminaire. Livre 144–149; and money 160; and politics
XIII (SXIII) 25–29, 34, 87, 93, 149, 163, 165–166, 168, 170–171, 174;
205, 234, 236; Le Séminaire. Livre XIV and segregation 197, 201, 203, 211;
(SXIV) 13, 17, 34, 56, 61, 96, 100, 127, and slavery 214; and society 227, 230,
144, 146, 151, 181, 204; Le Séminaire. 231; and superstructure 242–244;
Livre XV (SXV) 13, 19, 89, 93, 100, and surplus-jouissance 247, 253; and
179, 180; Le Séminaire. Livre XVI uneasiness/discontent/unhappiness 257;
(SXVI) 13, 16, 19, 27, 32–33, 35, 37, see also linguistic/s
 Index 299

Laplanche, J. xxxii marriage 51, 158, 229

Larriera, S. xxviii, 20 Marx, K., (and Friedrich Engels): Capital.
Lauretis, T. 139 A Critique of Political Economy, Vol.
law 25, 60, 77, 94, 126, 158, 159, 161, I (CAI) 4, 8, 17, 19, 32, 50, 66, 68,
162, 202, 203, 251, 259, 260, 267, 269, 115, 137–138, 146–147, 154–156,
274n3, 278 165–166, 170, 173, 177, 198–199,
Le Bon, G. 200, 247 230, 234, 248, 261, 264; Capital. A
leftism/the left 49, 100, 190 Critique of Political Economy, Vol.
Lenin, V. 7, 106, 150, 178, 188–189, 191, II (CAII) 234; Capital. A Critique of
195, 206, 240 Political Economy, Vol. III (CAIII) 199;
Leninism 150 Carta de Marx a Freud (CAF) 228; A
Lévi-Strauss, C. 52, 55–57, 59, 65, 100, Contribution to the Critique of Political
127, 165, 230, 231, 285 Economy (CPE) 56–57, 165, 239,
liberty see freedom/liberty 240; Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy
libidinal: and capitalism 31–33, 41; of Right (CHP) 50, 164; Critique of
and economy/oikonomia 63, 65; and the Gotha Programme (CGP) 47, 71;
labour/work 116, 119, 122; and politics Difference Between the Democritean
170–173; and segregation 200, 203, 205; and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature
and society 234; and surplus-jouissance (DDE) 180, 228; Early Writings
247, 248 (EW) 3–5; Economic and Philosophic
libido 2, 65, 118, 123n10, 170, 173, 200, Manuscripts of 1844 (EPM) 56, 164,
243, 247, 254 179, 226, 234, 236–237; The Eighteenth
linguistics: and alienation 10; Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (BLB)
and capitalism 31, 35–36; and 190; The Election Results in the United
economy/oikonomia 65, 67; and States (TER) 198; The German Ideology
freedom/liberty 76–77; and history (GI) 24, 66, 97–98, 137, 145–147, 226,
86–87, 90–91; and ideology 96, 100; 233, 235; Grundrisse. Foundations
and labour/work 112; and materialism of the Critique of Political Economy
149; and politics 170, 174; and (GR) 4, 25, 147, 164, 227, 232; On
superstructure 242–243; and surplus- the Jewish Question (OJQ) 56, 163,
jouissance 253; translation of 277–278; 208, 235; Manifesto of the Communist
see also language Party (MCP) 24, 29, 47, 136–137, 174,
Lorde, A. 139 177, 179, 229; Marx on suicide (MOS)
love: and alienation 1, 9; and consumption 60–61; The Poverty of Philosophy (PP)
59–60; and materialism 147; and 56, 234; The Programme of the Parti
money 154, 160; and politics 171; and Ouvrier (PPO) 198; A Provisional Rules
segregation 200, 202; and slavery 214– of the Working Men’s International
224; and surplus-jouissance 247–248 Association (PRW) 198; Theses on
Lukács, G. 7 Feuerbach (TOF) 46, 91, 236; Value,
Price, and Profit (VPP) 156
machine: and automatism 17–19, 21; and Marxian xxviii, 2, 65, 67, 103–105, 119,
labour/work 112, 121; and politics 166; 123n8, 124n16, 225, 236, 290n1, 290n2
and proletarian/labourer/worker 179, Marxism xxvii, xxix, xxxi–xxxv, xxxvii,
184; and society 232–234, 236; and xxxviii, xl, xli, 29, 31, 34–37, 46, 55,
surplus-jouissance 250, 252 86, 91–94, 99, 101, 105, 143, 147, 151,
manufacture 17, 165, 264, 268 178, 179, 181, 197, 203, 240, 241, 243,
market 126–133; and alienation 3; and 262, 278
automatism 16; and bourgeoisie 25, masochism 32, 42–43, 171, 269
31; and capitalism 32, 35, 37, 39, 42; mass 200; Massenpsychologie 168,
and labour/work 115, 118–121; and 200, 208; masses 107, 164, 168, 200,
money 157; and politics 162, 171; and 201, 208
revolution 194–195; and segregation Master discourse see discourse of the
198–199, 204; and society 229 Master
300 Index

master/tyrant 134–139; and politics 166, 231, 237; and uneasiness/discontent/

170; and proletarian/labourer/worker unhappiness 262
188; and revolution 189, 194–195; and
segregation 201, 205, 207, 209–210, narcissism 200, 201
214; and slavery 215–223; and society nation 36, 104–106
237; and surplus-jouissance 248, 250– nature xxix, xxxi, xli, 2, 3, 10, 17, 45, 46,
252; translation of 281; and uneasiness/ 49, 51, 52, 66, 69, 98, 119, 120, 128,
discontent/unhappiness 259–265; and 136, 154, 158, 195, 203, 209, 217, 223,
value 273 227, 228, 231–233, 242, 249, 259–261,
materialism 142–151; and bourgeoisie 25; 269, 274n5
and history 86, 91–93; and ideology 96; needs 2–4, 6, 17, 35, 37, 46, 69, 71, 89, 110,
and politics 163–164; and 146, 158, 164, 232, 246, 261, 264, 280
segregation 203; and society 227; and negativity 6, 33, 36, 37, 40, 42, 163, 164,
superstructure 241 183, 247, 248, 252, 253
mathematics and mathemes 285–289, Negri, A. 211
287, 289 neurosis 90, 169, 229, 231, 247, 259
Maupertuis, P. L. M. de 267, 270 neurotic 90, 123n7, 169
Mauss, M. 57–58, 161, 230, 231 Nobus, D. 12
mental: mental disorder 21; mental health normative 59–60, 112, 260
169, 199; mental illness 206, 207 no sexual relationship 236, 237, 257, 263
metalanguage xl, xli
metapsychology 94, 114, 228 Oedipus 26, 56, 59–60, 106, 127, 169, 231
method 3, 146, 147, 189 oikonomia see economy/oikonomia
methodology xxiv overdetermination 77, 241
militance 34, 35, 48 ownership 2, 7, 32, 132; see also private
Miller, J.-A. xxix, 48, 63–64, 66, 68, 86, property
173, 218, 284, 287
Miller, M. 49 paranoid 9, 166, 241, 243
Milner, J.-C. 113, 205, 285 Parker, I. 203
mode of production 24, 32, 41, 42, 57, 58, party 47, 48, 51, 52, 151, 166, 169,
60, 103, 116, 117, 156, 157, 159, 160, 181–184
239, 260, 261, 288 patriarchy 58, 60, 139
modern 25, 28, 33, 34, 58, 60, 64, 70, 75, Pavón-Cuéllar, D. 203, 211
76, 82, 103, 115–121, 137, 140n3, 155, perversion 42, 229, 232–234
177, 195, 202, 203, 205–207, 227–229, phallus 60, 156, 259, 263
232–235, 247, 259, 260, 276, 278 phenomena/phenomenology: and
modernity xxv, 2, 116, 118, 205, 246, 247, alienation 5; and communism 46, 49–50,
276, 277 52; and history 85, 90; and ideology 98;
money 153–161; and alienation 11; and and labour/work 112; and master/tyrant
capitalism 40; and consumption 55, 135; and materialism 147; and politics
57–58; and freedom/liberty 78; and 165; and society 230; and superstructure
market 132; and materialism 146; and 243; and value 266, 272
politics 169; and segregation 198; and philosophy 3, 6–8, 138, 142–144, 151,
society 229, 233, 235; uneasiness/ 163, 185n5, 189, 205, 230, 242, 252,
discontent/unhappiness 261, 264; and 276–278, xxxiv, xxxv, xxxviii
value 267, 270 plaisir 114, 278
Morin, F. 157 Plato 78–79, 135, 201–202, 214–216, 218,
mourning 110 220–223
myth: and economy/oikonomia 70; and pleasure 27, 28, 42, 61, 65, 66, 110–114,
history 87, 94; and market 127; and 123n3, 123n7, 159, 185n2, 222, 246,
master/tyrant 138; and segregation 202; 247, 254, 257, 268–271, 274n5, 274n7,
and slavery 216; and society 225, 228, 278, 279, 284
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pleasure principle 27, 28, 159, 247, 249, market 128; and politics 165; and
257, 274n5 segregation 198, 206; and society 229–
policy/ies 61, 128, 225 230, 235; and uneasiness/discontent/
politics 162–174; and automatism 17; and unhappiness 257
capitalism 35, 37, 44; and communism proletarian/labourer/worker 177–185; and
45; and economy/oikonomia 69; and alienation 4, 5, 11, 13; and automatism
imperialism 105; and labour/work 117, 17–21; and capitalism 31–32, 37–39,
122, 126; and segregation 203, 207, 42–43; and consumption 58, 60;
209–210; and surplus-jouissance 246 and economy/oikonomia 68, 70; and
Pontalis, J. B. xxxii labour/work 111, 117–121; and market
population 199, 232 131–132; and money 156; and politics
post-colonialism 102 164, 166, 174; and revolution 188, 192;
postmodern 35 and segregation 199; and society 229;
poverty 6, 199, 218 and superstructure 242; and surplus-
power: and alienation 3; and automatism jouissance 251, 254; and uneasiness/
17, 19; and bourgeoisie 24; and discontent/unhappiness 261, 262, 264;
capitalism 33, 35, 37, 40, 42; and and value 268
communism 51; and consumption 58– Proudhon 5
60; and freedom/liberty 82; and history psychoanalysis xxvi, xxvii, xxviii,
92; and ideology 97, 99, 101–104; xxx–xxxviii, xl, xli, 1, 16, 31, 32,
and imperialism 108; and labour/work 34–36, 41, 44, 48, 49, 55, 56, 58, 64, 65,
115–116, 120–121; and market 129; 81, 83n4, 85, 86, 89, 90, 110, 113–115,
and master/tyrant 134–135; and money 118, 122, 126, 127, 150, 151, 157, 162,
156; and politics 162, 164, 171–172, 168, 170–172, 174, 177, 181, 183, 184,
174; and proletarian/labourer/worker 185n1, 190, 193, 198, 201, 205, 208,
177; and revolution 188, 190–194; 209, 211, 247, 250, 252, 256–260, 262,
and segregation 199; and society 228; 263, 265, 266, 277, 278, 282
and surplus-jouissance 248–249; and psychology 25, 26, 28, 49, 51, 64, 67, 90,
uneasiness/discontent/unhappiness 258, 168, 200, 201, 208, 225, 227, 228, 242
260–261, 264; and value 266, 268–269 psychosis 71, 77, 78
praxis 6, 99, 143, 162, 164, 193, 257
price 32, 64, 71n1, 120, 127, 131, 151, racism 107, 128, 197–198, 202–204, 273
157, 158, 162, 210, 268 Real xl, 18, 67, 71, 86, 91, 250, 252, 258
primitive 2, 46, 58, 98, 227, 248 reality xxvii, xli, 23, 24, 26, 33, 34, 36, 41,
private property: and alienation 3, 5; and 44, 83n1, 99, 105, 136, 143, 144, 146,
capitalism 32, 34; and communism 45; 150, 181, 190, 191, 223, 227, 229, 231,
and consumption 57, 60–61; and market 232, 236, 240, 241, 247, 281, 286
132; and politics 163–164; and society Recalcati, M. 22
226–227, 234 reification 7, 46, 47, 99, 100, 252
production 3, 4, 13, 16–18, 20, 21, 24–27, religion: and alienation 4; and bourgeoisie
31–37, 39–42, 46, 56–61, 69–71, 97–99, 25; and capitalism 31, 35; and
104, 105, 111–113, 116–122, 123n6– communism 50; and labour/work 113;
123n8, 126–130, 137, 138, 143, 146, and money 160; and politics 163; and
147, 156, 159, 160, 162, 165, 166, 170, segregation 205; and society 235
177, 198, 222, 227, 232, 233, 235–237, repetition 18, 22n3, 41, 91, 113, 120, 121,
239, 240, 257, 261, 264, 268–270, 280, 189, 190, 196n2, 232, 246, 248, 249,
281, 288 254, 269, 274n6
profit 3, 57, 114, 157, 199, 200, 210, 226, repression: and capitalism 32, 36; and
234, 274n7, 279 economy/oikonomia 69; and history
progress: and alienation 3; and bourgeoisie 90–91; and labour/work 110–111;
26; and communism 46; and freedom/ and money 161; and politics 169; and
liberty 74; and labour/work 122; and revolution 192; and segregation 199;
302 Index

and society 230, 235; and surplus- semblant 70, 130–131, 174, 263
jouissance 247; and uneasiness/ servitude 83n2, 135, 164, 221, 222, 230
discontent/unhappiness 257 sexuation 64, 70, 174
revolution xxvii, 188–195; and automatism signifier xxvi, xxix, xxxiii, xxxvi; and
19; and bourgeoisie 25, 29; and alienation 10–13; and automatism
capitalism 33–35, 39; and communism 17–18, 20; and bourgeoisie 26; and
51; and economy/oikonomia 68; and capitalism 33, 38–39; and communism
freedom/liberty 78; and imperialism 52; and economy/oikonomia 64–68,
108; and proletarian/labourer/worker 70; and freedom/liberty 74, 76, 78; and
177–178, 180, 184; and superstructure history 86–92; and labour/work 118–
243; and uneasiness/discontent/ 119; and market 130–131; and master/
unhappiness 256 tyrant 138; and materialism 142, 144–
Ricardo 165, 173, 198, 199 151; and money 160; and politics 163,
Rickman, J. 168, 209 169–170, 173–174; and revolution 191;
rights: and bourgeoisie 25, 28; and segregation 201, 209; and society
and consumption 57, 60; and 225, 230–237; and superstructure 244;
economy/oikonomia 71; and politics and surplus-jouissance 248, 250–251,
163–164, 169; and segregation 207, 211; 253–254; translation of 277, 283; and
and society 230, 235 uneasiness/discontent/unhappiness 258,
Roudinesco, É. Xxxiii 262–264
Rousseau (ian) 2, 83n1, 162, 269 Sismondi 5
ruling class 6, 29 slave xxxvii, 214–224; and bourgeoisie 27;
and capitalism 34, 38; and imperialism
Sartre, J.-P. 91, 93, 208 103; and master/tyrant 134–138; and
satisfaction: and economy/oikonomia politics 164, 166; and revolution 192;
66–67, 70; and labour/work 110–111, and segregation 201, 210; and society
112–113, 116; and market 127; and 228, 230; and surplus-jouissance 250;
money 159–160; and proletarian/ translation of 282; and uneasiness/
labourer/worker 183, 185; and surplus- discontent/unhappiness 259–262
jouissance 246–247, 254 slavery 214–224
savoir 69, 248, 250, 251, 254 Smith, A. 165, 199, 226, 267
science xxv, 20, 25–28, 33–36, 46, 49, 50, socialism 48, 69, 71, 105, 161
58, 107, 119, 138, 143, 163, 165, 167, social movement(s) 57, 193
203–208, 264, 283 society xli, 225–237; and alienation 3, 5–6;
segregation xxxvii, 107, 127–128, and automatism 21; and bourgeoisie
197–211, 236 24–29; and capitalism 32, 39; and
Selbstentfremdung 3 communism 45–52; and consumption
self: and alienation 3, 8–11; and 57, 59; and economy/oikonomia
automatism 16, 22; and capitalism 66–67, 70; and ideology 99; and
43; and communism 45, 47, 51; materialism 145–146; and politics
and economy/oikonomia 65; and 163, 165; and proletarian/labourer/
imperialism 106–107; and labour/work worker 183–184; and segregation 198,
114, 117, 119, 121; and master/tyrant 202–203; and superstructure 239; and
135–136; and materialism 144; and surplus-jouissance 247–249, 254; and
politics 166, 169, 170; and revolution uneasiness/discontent/unhappiness
195; and segregation 201, 208, 210; and 256–257, 259–262, 264–265
slavery 216, 223; and society 226–227; Socrates 34, 167, 201, 215–219, 222–224,
and superstructure 242; and surplus- 236, 257
jouissance 247; translation of 277–278; Soler, C. 181–182, 287
and uneasiness/discontent/unhappiness sovereignty: and bourgeoisie 25; and
258, 260 economy/oikonomia 64, 66, 68, 70; and
self-esteem 210 master/tyrant 135; and politics 174; and
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revolution 194; and segregation 4, 11, 28, 41, 43, 85, 89, 118, 124n13,
209, 211 124n16, 168, 201, 205, 233, 247, 253,
Soviet Union/Soviet 48, 49, 51, 147, 150, 259, 276–278; and superstructure
208, 242, 280 241; and surplus-jouissance 246–247,
species 8, 133, 138 249–254; translation of 276–278; and
speculative 47, 150, 286 uneasiness/discontent/unhappiness
speech: and alienation 10; and 258–265; and value 269
economy/oikonomia 65; and history 90; subjectivity: and alienation 4, 10–11; and
and labour/work 117, 121; and market automatism 20; and bourgeoisie 28; and
128; and materialism 144; and politics capitalism 36, 41, 43–44; and freedom/
170–171, 174; and proletarian/labourer/ liberty 77; and history 85, 89; and
worker 181; and revolution 191; and labour/work 118; and politics 167,
segregation 209; and society 233; and 168; and segregation 201, 205; and
surplus-jouissance 246, 247, 250–251, society 233; and surplus-jouissance
253; and uneasiness/discontent/ 247, 253; and uneasiness/discontent/
unhappiness 258 unhappiness 259
Spinoza (ian) 51, 55, 83n1 sublimation 70, 231, 234–235, 247
Stalin, J. 48–49, 93, 100, 107, 147, subordination 20, 48–49, 67, 97, 118,
242–243 136, 146
State 83n1, 105, 163, 169, 171, 189, 195, subversion: and capitalism 35, 39; and
202, 235, 239 economy/oikonomia 69–70; and
Stavrakakis, Y. xxxvii market 129; and proletarian/labourer/
strike 19, 71, 76, 117, 122, 178, 179, 182, worker 181; and segregation 211; and
184, 262 society 227; and uneasiness/discontent/
structural 17, 24, 26, 29, 31–33, 35, 36, 42, unhappiness 256
45, 65, 77, 104, 117, 118, 130, 139, 158, superstructure 239–244; and consumption
165, 167, 184, 191, 192, 194, 198, 199, 60–61; and ideology 100; and
201, 203, 208, 226, 227, 230, 231, 237, materialism 145, 147; and politics 165;
243, 280 and segregation 197; translation of 279
structuralism 35, 37, 43, 52, 64, 70, surplus-jouissance xxx, 246–255,
230, 235 251; and automatism 16–18, 21;
structuralist 35, 55, 65, 68, 86, 87, 89, 91, and bourgeoisie 23; and capitalism
99, 100, 124n17, 228, 236 37, 41; and consumption 56; and
subject: and alienation 10–13; and economy/oikonomia 64, 68–70; and
automatism 16–21; barred subject ideology 100; and politics 173
69; and bourgeoisie 24–25, 27–29; surplus-value: and automatism 16, 19, 21;
and capitalism 31–33, 35–44; and and bourgeoisie 28; and capitalism 32,
consumption 56–59, 61; divided 34, 37, 39, 41; and economy/oikonomia
subject 18, 20, 179, 205, 263, 264; 64, 68–69, 71; and imperialism
and economy/oikonomia 63–71; 103–105; and labour/work 115–118,
and freedom/liberty 74, 76, 78, 82; 120–122; and market 128–130; and
and history 85, 87, 89, 90, 93; and master/tyrant 137–138; and materialism
imperialism 106; and labour/work 111, 146; and money 153–154, 156,
115, 118–122; and market 126, 128– 159–160; and politics 166, 170; and
129, 131–132; and master/tyrant 134, segregation 200–201; and society 225,
136–139; and materialism 144–146, 236; and surplus-jouissance 248–249,
150–151; and money 160; and politics 254; translation of 279, 284; and
167–171, 173; and proletarian/labourer/ uneasiness/discontent/unhappiness 264;
worker 177–183, 185; and revolution and value 266, 268–273
192–193; and segregation 201–209; and symbolic xl, xli, 10, 12, 18, 21, 25, 29, 56,
slavery 220, 221; and society 226–227, 65, 67, 69, 71, 76–78, 86–89, 91, 92,
230–233, 235–236; subjectivity xl, xli, 102, 103, 113, 117, 119, 120, 142, 144,
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145, 147–151, 159, 161, 170, 201–203, Tse-Tung, M. 205

207, 211, 228, 231, 235, 236, 250, 252, tyrant see master/tyrant
253, 259, 261
symptom: and bourgeoisie 25; and Überbau 239, 244n1
capitalism 41–42, 44; and communism Unbewusst 113, 123n11
47; and consumption 56; and unconscious xxvii; and alienation 10, 13;
economy/oikonomia 71; and freedom/ and automatism 16–21; and capitalism
liberty 82; and history 92; and ideology 31–32, 36; and economy/oikonomia 63–
100; and imperialism 104; and labour/ 64, 70; and freedom/liberty 81–82; and
work 117, 119; and market 128, 132; history 85, 88; and imperialism 106; and
and master/tyrant 138; and materialism labour/work 110–117, 119–120, 122;
145, 149–150; and proletarian/labourer/ and market 126–128; and materialism
worker 177–185; and segregation 211; 148–150; and money 158; and politics
and surplus-jouissance 247–248, 251; 162, 164–165, 170–173; and proletarian/
and uneasiness/discontent/ labourer/worker 177–179, 181–183,
unhappiness 259 185; and revolution 189, 193; and
system xxxiv, 3, 16–18, 20–23, 31, 33, 34, segregation 201–202; and society 228,
42, 49, 60, 65, 121, 126, 131, 164, 169, 231, 233; and superstructure 244; and
171, 184, 193, 197, 200, 210, 250, surplus-jouissance 246–251; translation
269, 270 of 277, 283; and uneasiness/discontent/
unhappiness 257–258, 262, 264; and
theory xxvi, xxxiv, 1, 3, 6, 17, 29, 31, 36, value 272
37, 67, 85, 86, 97–100, 103, 105, 110, uneasiness/discontent/unhappiness
113, 114, 118, 126, 129, 132, 145, 147, 256–265; and politics 164–166, 169;
162, 164, 170, 171, 178, 181, 182, 193, and proletarian/labourer/worker 183;
250, 267, 286 and society 226, 231; translation of 281
Tomšič, S. 40–44, 205, 211 unhappiness see uneasiness/discontent/
topology: Cross Cap 132; and unhappiness
economy/oikonomia 70; graph 247, Unheimlich 123n11, 128
286; and ideology 100; Klein Bottle Union 19, 48, 49, 51, 108, 128, 208, 280
132; Klein Group 286; and market 132; University’s discourse see discourse of the
projective plane 132; and superstructure University
244; torsion 28, 204; translation of 279, utilitarianism: and communism 50; and
282–283; and value 267 economy/oikonomia 64, 66, 67; and
totality 6, 67, 118, 241 politics 171; and society 228–230, 236;
transference: and politics 171; and slavery and uneasiness/discontent/unhappiness
220, 221; and uneasiness/discontent/ 260; and value 266, 274
unhappiness 258
truth: and capitalism 38, 42; and valorisation 115, 119, 210, 234, 248;
economy/oikonomia 69, 70; and and capitalism 41; and labour/work
freedom/liberty 76, 78; and history 92; 115–117, 119; and materialism 146;
and ideology 100; and imperialism 104; and segregation 210; and surplus-
and labour/work 122; and market 126, jouissance 248
131–133; and master/tyrant 138; and value xxviii, xxxvii, 266–274; and
materialism 147, 149–151; and politics alienation 3, 13; and automatism
168; and proletarian/labourer/worker 19; and capitalism 32, 34, 37, 39;
177–179, 181–185; and revolution 190, and consumption 55–56, 59–61; and
194–195; and segregation 198, 204, economy/oikonomia 64, 68–71; and
211; and slavery 217, 221–222; and ideology 98–100; and imperialism 103–
society 231; and surplus-jouissance 248, 105; and labour/work 111, 115–121;
251–252; and uneasiness/discontent/ and market 126–132; and master/tyrant
unhappiness 261–265 138; and materialism 146–147, 153; and
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money 154–161; and politics 164–166, wealth 6, 42, 46, 58, 59, 154, 157, 166,
173; and proletarian/labourer/worker 222, 226, 234, 261, 269, 280
182; and revolution 195; and society Williams, R. xxxii, xxxvi, 241
231; and surplus-jouissance 248–249, women: and consumption 56–61; and
254–255; translation of 279, 280; and economy/oikonomia 65; and market
uneasiness/discontent/unhappiness 259, 127; and master/tyrant 138–139; and
261, 264; see also surplus-value money 158; and segregation 198; and
Verdrängung 69 society 229, 237; and uneasiness/
Verwirklichung 68 discontent/unhappiness 263
vocabulary xxvi–xxxviii, 4 work see labour/work
Voloshinov, V. N. 242 worker see proletarian/labourer/worker
Vorstellung 89; working class 29, 45, 137, 185n4, 198,
Vorstellungsrepräsentanz 113 199, 229
Vorstellungsrepräsentanz 113 Wunsch 112

wage 4, 20, 179 Zapatismo xxii

wage labour 4, 5, 264 Žižek, S. xxxvii, 18, 43–44, 188–190, 252
War 49, 51, 194, 206 Zupančič, A. 41–42, 44, 205, 249, 252