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Lacanian Marxism?

The Impact of Marx on the Development of Lacan’s Thought

David Pavón-Cuéllar

Friday, February 21, 2025 • 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM (ET)
In-person and via Zoom

Much has been written about Lacan’s Marx, about the way in which Lacan reads Marx, appropriates his ideas and reinvents them, transforming and Lacanizing them. What is not so clear is the impact of Marx on the development of Lacan’s thought and especially the way in which Lacan was Marxized, transformed and possessed by Marx, to the point of engendering a kind of Marxist who would certainly not be recognized as such by his followers.

Suggested readings: Lacan: Seminars VII, 1959-60, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis; XIV, 1966-7, The Logic of the Phantasm; XVI, 1968-69, From an Other to the Other; XVII, 1969-70, The Other Side of Psychoanalysis.

Location: In-person in NYC and online via Zoom.

Fee: $40; For students with ID: $20. Registration details to follow. 

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David Pavón-Cuéllar is a professor of Psychology and Philosophy at the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo in Morelia, Mexico. His recent books include Psicoanálisis y colonialidad: hacia una inflexión anticolonial de la herencia freudiana (Mexico City, Fontamara, 2024); Then and Now: On the Crowd, the Subject, and the Collective (with Betty Fuks, Paola Mieli, Rosalind Morris and Alain Vanier, New York, Agincourt, 2024); Sobre el vacío: puentes entre marxismo y psicoanálisis (Mexico City, Paradiso, 2022); Psychoanalysis and Revolution: Critical Psychology for Liberation Movements (with Ian Parker, 1968 Press, London, 2021, translated into nine languages); Virus del Capital (Buenos Aires, Docta Ignorancia, 2021); Zapatismo y subjetividad: más allá de la psicología (Bogotá, Cátedra Libre, 2020); and Marxism and Psychoanalysis: In or Against Psychology? (London, Routledge, 2017).