ABSTRACT
As regards post-psychoanalysis, as well as theorists of psychology and emotion, are bent on throwing off what they view as the straitjacket of psychoanalysis. To turn now to the topic of post-totalitarianism, the author suggests that a similar concern with difference and identity as opposed to a concern with disagreement over beliefs characterizes recent developments in political theory. He proposes that what has gone missing in what he calling post-totalitarianism is a concern with issues of class and economic inequality. On the contrary, the problem of the poor is the problem of a growing economic inequality resulting from the operations of global capitalism. Malabou includes in one single category the effects of traumas resulting from actual head wounds or cerebral lesions, and traumas resulting from political violence or social conflict, in order to propose that none of those traumas can be interpreted in psychoanalytic terms.
