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ALBERTI, Sonia. Symptom and Politics. Rev. Mal-Estar Subj. [online]. 2011, vol.11, n.1, pp.285-309. ISSN 1518-6148.

Lacan associates Socrates, Descartes, Marx and Freud regarding their object: truth. The symptom presents it as it is: at all times a half saying (mi dire). Since an individual is always a Gattungswesen, a being which relates itself to others, as Marx used to say, the function of the symptom in psychoanalysis is not reducible to the field of individual psychology. Freud puts it in this way: every individual psychology is also a social psychology. This article focuses on the notion of the symptom in the way Friedrich Engels developed it, and then follows the definition from Marx, since Lacan always referred the origin of the use of the word symptom in psychoanalysis, to the definition Marx gave. The article is organized as follows: it begins deducing from Engel's text on family, three strokes endured by the Name-of-the-Father in culture, and derives from that the fact that the father function, in Freud, is already a loophole. It then develops Marx'vs definition of the symptom as "the only way in which that which exists affirms its opposite", as quoted literally in the text. When we associate the Name of the father, here treated as a symptom as well, with this definition of Marx, the article articulates the symptom in the intersection of psychoanalysis and politics, associating Freud, Engels, Marx and Lacan.

Palavras-chave : Symptom; Social bond; Name-of-the-Father; Engels and Marx; Freud and Lacan.

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