The Imaginary Institution of Society

Preface 1(6) Part I Marxism and Revolutionary Theory 7(158) 1 Marxism: A Provisional Assessment 9(62) i The Historical Situation of Marxism and the Notion of Orthodoxy 9(6) ii Marxist Theory of History 15(26) Economic determinism and class struggle 29(3) Subject and object of historical knowledge 32(4) Additional remarks on the Marxist theory of history 36(5) iii Marxist Philosophy of History 41(15) Objectivist rationalism 41(1) Determinism 42(3) The concatenation of significations and the `cunning of reason' 45(9) Dialectic and `materialism' 54(2) iv The Two Elements of Marxism and their Historical Fate 56(15) The Philosophical Foundation of the Decay 68(3) 2 Theory and Revolutionary Project 71(44) i Praxis and Project 71(8) Knowing and doing 71(4) Praxis and project 75(4) ii Roots of the Revolutionary Project 79(22) Social roots of the revolutionary project 79(5) Revolution and rationalization 84(2) Revolution and Social totality 86(4) The subjective roots of the revolutionary project 90(5) The logic of the revolutionary project 95(6) iii Autonomy and Alienation 101(14) The sense of autonomy -- the individual 101(6) The social dimension of autonomy 107(1) Instituted heteronomy: alienation as a social phenomenon 108(2) `Communism' in its mythical sense 110(5) 3 The Institution and the Imaginary: A First Approach 115(50) i The Institution from the Functional-Economic Point of View 115(2) ii The Institution and the Symbolic 117(10) iii The Symbolic and the Imaginary 127(5) iv Alienation and the Imaginary 132(3) v Social Imaginary Significations 135(11) vi The Role of Imaginary Significations 146(10) vii The Imaginary in the Modern World 156(4) viii The Imaginary and the Rational 160(5) Part II The Social Imaginary and the Institution 165(209) 4 The Social-Historical 167(54) i Possible Types of Traditional Responses 170(6) ii Society and the Schemata of Coexistence 176(7) iii History and the Schemata of Succession 183(3) iv The Philosophical Institution of Time 186(9) v Time and Creation 195(7) vi The Social Institution of Time 202(7) vii Identitary Time and Imaginary Time 209(6) viii Lack of Distinction between the Social and the Historical 215(6) 5 The Social-Historical Institution: Legein and Teukhein 221(52) i Identitary Logic and Sets 221(6) ii The Social Institution of Ensembles 227(2) iii The Leaning of Society on Nature 229(8) iv `Legein' and Language as Code 237(7) v Aspects of `Legein' 244(13) vi `Legein', Determinacy, Understanding 257(3) vii Aspects of `Teukhein' 260(8) viii Historicity of Legein and Teukhein 268(5) 6 The Social-Historical Institution: Individuals and Things 273(67) i The Mode of Being of the Unconscious 274(7) ii The Question of the Origin of Representation 281(10) iii Psychical Reality 291(3) iv The Monadic Core of the Primal Subject 294(6) v The Break-Up of the Monad and the Triadic Phase 300(8) vi The Constitution of Reality 308(3) vii Sublimation and the Socialization of the Psyche 311(5) viii The Social-Historical Content of Sublimation 316(4) ix The Individual and Representation in General 320(9) x The Prejudice of Perception and the Privilege of `Things' 329(7) xi Representation and Thought 336(4) 7 Social Imaginary Significations 340(34) i The Magmas 340(5) ii Significations in language 345(8) iii Social Imaginary Significations and `Reality' 353(6) iv Social Imaginary Significations and the Institution of the World 359(5) v The Mode of Being of Social Imaginary Significations 364(5) vi Radical Imaginary, Instituting Society, Instituted Society 369(5) Notes 374(32) Index 406