%0 Journal Article
%T Imagining Lacan Imagining Marx
%A Roger A. Salerno
%J Critical Sociology
%@ 1569-1632
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0896920516658942
%X This critical review proposes that Lacan¡¯s concept of alienation has little relevance to Marx¡¯s notion of estrangement of labor and in fact depoliticizes it. Proceeding from a position that is not unsympathetic to poststructuralist theory, the author finds fault with Lacanian structuralism and particularly enlisting the help of Durkheim in attempting to enrich Marx¡¯s psychology. While the author credits professors Worrell and Krier for attempting to take their critique of Marx to a more contemporary theoretical level, one which can potentially have value, he nevertheless sees the use of Lacan and Durkheim to rescue Marx as inappropriate, problematic, and a rejection of Marx¡¯s humanistic understanding of human relations as well as an unsupported dismissal of his notion of alienation based on human and material commodification
%K alienation
%K Lacan
%K poststructuralism
%K structuralism
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0896920516658942