Front Cove -- History After Lacan -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Series preface -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Texts and Translations -- Part I -- 1 The problem -- 2 The ego's era -- 'The Social Psychosis' -- 'At the dawn of the era of the ego…' -- 'One returns, comes back, coming across the same path, one cross-checks it' -- 'A passifying image…' -- 'The path of logic…' -- 'The symptom, as defined by Marx in the social…' -- Part II -- 3 The foundational fantasy -- The foundational fantasy -- The subject's inertia -- From the common source to the one substance -- 4 From the reserve army of labour to the standing reserve of nature -- The time-energy axis -- From the reserve army of labour to the standing reserve of nature -- The law of substitution -- Production and real value -- The overall quantity of use-and surplus-value -- The speed of acquisition -- How space replaces time -- The state -- Reproduction: perspectives on gender, neo-colonialism and class -- 5 Conclusion: Time and exploitation -- Notes on the fantasy's history: symbolization and scale Imaginary time -- Imaginary time -- Exploitation and its opposition -- Appendix: The labour theory of value and the subject-object distinction -- The labour theory of value -- The subject-object distinction and the living and the dead -- The difference between labour and nature -- Centralization, objectification and the will -- Works cited -- Index.