The Importance of Psychoanalysis in Marxism

I think that whenever I'm talking to Marxists who have any sympathies at all for psychoanalysis, they do make it make a point to say that it can be useful only if it is subordinated to Marxism and sort of operates underneath that overall overarching structure. That's still very much a position that is alive and well on the Marxist side of things to this very day. My main idea is this this that the structure of desire is desire always finds its satisfaction through missing its object. Capitalism allows us to think we can have this even greater enjoyment from the object if we get it but in truth our desire is satisfied by not being realized. And so I identify what I call the promise of