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Žižek’s studies of hysteria, commodity, fetish, and symptom can contribute to the development of a viable Marxist-psychoanalytic model for political analysis, which can, in turn, clarify some of the ambiguities in Marx’s understanding of commodity and fetish and help to separate the two into distinct phenomena. One can also qualify Žižek’s claim that Lacan said that Marx invented the symptom and argue, instead, that Marx invented the notion of sublimation as a psychopolitical phenomenon.
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Bonfiglio, T.P. (2017). Žižek’s Hysterical Commodities. In: The Psychopathology of American Capitalism. Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55592-8_5
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