Bøger af Samo Tomsic

Enjoyment appears as purely private matter, but this is by far not thecase. Ever since Aristotle the philosophical social critique is tormentedby the question, whether the libidinal tendencies of human subjectsallow the construction of a just political-economic order. It seemed at first that in modernity this problem had been overcome. Economic liberalism and utilitarianism argued that egoistic private interests and social justice were directly linked and that capitalism united libidinal andpolitical economy in the best possible manner. But the political-economic panorama soon turned out significantly more complex and contradictory.TomSic's essay recalls central Marxian and Freudian insights andcircumscribes the political stakes of psychoanalysis under the generalbanner of a Critique of Libidinal Economy.

A major systematic study of the connection between Marx and Lacan's workFinalist for the American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis Book PrizeDespite 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 Lacan's work. A 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. Lacan's unorthodox reading of Marx refigured such crucial concepts as alienation, jouissance and the Freudian ';labour theory of the unconscious'. Tracing these developments, Tomimaintains 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.