The symptom between Marxism and Psychoanalysis

'From 'Mehnvert' to 'plus-value' and back ...': this rather enigmatic title of Gerry Sullivan's contribution suggests a relation between the Mehnvert or surplus value of Marx and the plus-de-jouir or surplus jouissance of Lacan. On the one hand we know that Lacan's plus-de-jouir is, among other things, a conceptualisation of Freud's idea of the Lustgewinn - this Lustgezvinn being the pleasure liberated by a joke when, for a moment, we may drop our lifelong sustained effort at repression.…