ABSTRACT
Aligning Freud with Kant, Copjec reads the primal murder as a “noumenal” event, one that cannot be an object of experience. She introduces the notion of “subreption” to denote the operation through which “a supersensible idea” is “falsely represented as if it were a possible object of experience”. The slave revolt in morality involves what Schmitt diagnosed as the ubiquitous “onslaught against the political” where endless parliamentary debates replace the political. The slave revolt in morality grounds the end of the politico-therapeutic and paves the way for the triumph of the university discourse, the antithesis of the conflictual sciences. With the decline of the politico-therapeutic, late modernity testifies to the daunting contradiction of subjugation – interpellation without subjectivity, a predicament akin to madness.
