ABSTRACT
Sigmund Freud usually says that he has no use for philosophy, which is in no position to tell us anything serviceable of the relation between body and mind or to provide us with a key to an understanding of possible disturbances of the mental function. But Freud's philosophy is an incomplete anti-philosophy, for he cannot think radical exteriority of trauma and thus its purely political dimension. For Slavoj Zizek, as for Badiou, the basic motif of anti-philosophy is the assertion of a pure presence, irreducible to and excessive with regard to the network of philosophical concepts or representations. Zizek finds that dimension in Lacan's claim to replaces Freudian energetics with political economy and in his insistence on the matheme as real. One of Zizek's most frequent sets of references to this inconsistency and excess of the subject and the symbolic comes directly or indirectly from Freud's great cultural myth of the primordial father in the 1913 Totem and Taboo.
