{"product_id":"lacan-and-marx-pierre-bruno-9780367334000","title":"Lacan and Marx: The Invention of the Symptom","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLacan and Marx: The Invention of the Symptom\u003c\/em\u003e provides an incisive commentary on Lacan's reading of Marx, mapping the relations between these two vastly influential thinkers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnlike previous books, Bruno provides a detailed history of Lacan's reading of Marx and surveys his references to Marx in both his writings and seminars. Examining Lacan's key argument that Marx \"invented the symptom\", Bruno shows how Lacan went on to criticize Marx and contrasts Marx's concept of surplus-value with Lacan's surplus-enjoyment. Exploring the division between Marxist and psychoanalytic perspectives on social and psychological need and Lacan's formalisation of the capitalist discourse, the book compares the positions of Althusser, Deleuze and Guattari, and Zizek on the relations between Lacan, Marx and capitalism, using a wide range of cultural examples, from Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde to Brecht's Joan Dark and Pierpont Mauler. Through these readings, Bruno also elaborates an extended commentary on Lacan's central idea of the division of the subject. His focus is not only on showing how we can exit from capitalism but also, and just as importantly, on showing how we can make capitalism exit from us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book will be of great interest to scholars and readers of Lacan and Marx from across the fields of psychoanalysis, philosophy and political economy, and will also appeal to Lacanian psychoanalysts in clinical practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Pierre Bruno\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0367334003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780367334000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/27\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.10w x 0.70d","brand":"Pierre Bruno","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48112880386303,"sku":"9780367334000","price":190.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4fde217a-9b1a-4974-8d5b-31538463e625.jpg?v=1769611567","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/lacan-and-marx-pierre-bruno-9780367334000","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}