A Concept of Subjectivity

Of all the lines between the theoretical work of Marx and Freud there is one that rests literally on the surface. Both continually reworked the “mode of presentation” of their discoveries. While in Marx it was the endless revisions and false starts that lie behind Capital, that have now become accessible with the publication of the Grundrisse, in Freud it was the constant recourse to “models” or “metaphors” which would, in their totality, somehow grasp this new phenomenon. So mind is a city being excavated, a mystic writing pad, a theatre, a censored newspaper, a system of inscriptions. The point is that both struggled with a field, with an inquiry, that passed beyond the theoretical vocabulary available and that imposed on both thinkers the need for reflection on the production of theory

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