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‘Marxism and Psychology’ by Anton Pannekoek from Living Marxism. Vol. 4 No. 1. February, 1938.
Anton Pannekoek: Marxism and psychology
During the last two elections, President Lula in Brazil made alliances with the right-wingers, and now his followers are saying that the right-wingers are going to destroy Brazil, but they never mention capitalism
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/10/06/itla-o06.html
Spain is also moving toward the right
Sánchez calls snap elections to derail mass opposition as Spanish far right threatens power
Why nobody can stop the right wings
PS: You can go to their website, and it will translate it for you
The reason that I am doing research and reading Jacques Lacan is not that I support his point of view, but I want to have sufficient knowledge to be able to answer arguments on chat and Facebook sites, and discussion forums. I am an amateur in Lacanianism
I took two classes on medical psychology and abnormal psychology, and they are much better and more interesting than Freud’s analysis; they are more real and more scientific, and most of the teachers and the students rejected Sigmund Freud. Some teachers applied the concept of ‘bizarre personality’ to Freud, and they called him a cocaine addict
In Brazil, probably the right-wingers are going to win the election in the second round on 10/25/26, and the popularity of Lula has decreased drastically.
This is a good analysis of this situation, and they are saying the same thing as has been said by the Socialist Party: that the right-wingers are becoming popular due to the failure of the left and that capitalism can not be reformed
Marx was a scientist; Freud was a charlatan, like many Lacan followers. Several burnout groups and personalities in Latin America are supporting him
That Lacan did not read Freud isn’t my opinion; it’s the opinion of people who have read both. Besides, the argument is that you do not have to read Freud to understand Lacan or vice versa
He wrote a book titled Return to Freud, and many have argued that it is not a return to Freud.
When you read Marx, you know immediately that you are dealing with a scientist who has covered several scientific fields, including anthropology
These are the french philosophers who are darlings of the left
Louis Althusser (1918–1990): A leading structuralist Marxist who taught at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. He wrote For Marx and Reading Capital, rethinking Marxist theory through structuralism and anti-humanism.
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980): A famous existentialist who later tried to combine existentialism with historical materialism, most notably in his work Critique of Dialectical Reason.
Lucien Sève (1926–2020): A philosopher and long-time member of the French Communist Party known for his work on Marxist psychology and the theory of personality.
Henri Lefebvre (1901–1991): A Marxist sociologist and philosopher who helped introduce critique of everyday life and spatial theory into Western Marxist thought
The political left engages with French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan because his structural theories of desire, language, and the “Big Other” provide powerful tools to critique ideology, capitalism, and irrational political behaviour.
While Lacan himself was not a traditional progressive or political revolutionary, major leftist thinkers like Slavoj Žižek and Ernesto Laclau adopted his framework for several key reasons:
Critique of the Rational Subject
• Rejection of Liberal Individualism: Traditional political theory often assumes humans are rational, self-interested agents. Lacan showed that the human subject is fundamentally split and driven by an unconscious, unfulfilled desire.
• Explaining Irrationalism: Leftist analysts use Lacanian concepts to explain why people vote against their economic self-interest or get drawn into fascism, racism, and nationalism through emotional and unconscious investments.The Role of “Jouissance” (Enjoyment)
• Pleasure and Power: Lacan introduced jouissance—a complex term blending pleasure, pain, and transgression.
• Ideological Attachment: The left uses this concept to understand how individuals derive a perverse psychological “enjoyment” from political scapegoating, systemic hierarchies, or consumer capitalism, explaining why changing a political system requires shifting deep-seated psychic attachments, not just economic structures.Deconstructing Ideology and the “Big Other”
• Symbolic Orders: Lacan argued that reality is mediated by language and socially constructed symbolic systems (the “Big Other” or baseline authority structures).
• Subverting Norms: Because Lacan placed the subversion of identity and established norms at the centre of psychoanalysis, his work naturally aligns with critiques of power, state authority, and cultural hegemony.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_psychology
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abnormal_psychology
These are much better professional fields than all those frauds about Sigmund Freud
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2010/11/zize-n12.html
Zizek in Manhattan: An intellectual charlatan masquerading as “left”
In Israel, they are doing the same thing, and children are writing messages on missiles. The new Colombian government is hiring children for the armed forces to combat communism and drug dealers. The new president was a defence lawyer for the drug cartels. He was an atheist, and now he is catholic
Freud the fraud. book review
