Exchange-Value And Use In Psychoanalysis

One of the topics dealt with in the seminar on the Logic of Phantasy concerns the question as to whether or not, at the level of the unconscious, we are structured as male or female subjects. In order to tease out this idea Lacan initially refers to Marx's discussion on the value and its subsystem of use-value and exchange-value. In order to give an understanding of Marx, I believe it best to let him speak for himself, for it is not possible for me to gild that lily.…