Late Neoclassical Economics and Its Modes of Negation: A Response to Chakrabarti, Glynos, and Primrose

Abstract

Despite the fact that psychoanalytical concepts are absent in Yahya M. Madra’s Late Neoclassical Economics, the three commentaries on the book, by Chakrabarti, Glynos, and Primrose, read the text in a certain psychoanalytical key, and for good reason. Their readings demonstrate that a number of unnamed psychoanalytical models silently informed the discourse analysis mobilized throughout the text. Reading late neoclassical economics as an internally differentiated field of defense formations against contradictions, antagonisms, and conflicts that arise from the constitutive destructuredness of the economy, this response essay by Yahya M. Madra explores the applicability of the key psychoanalytical concepts of negation (repression, foreclosure, disavowal) for a discourse analysis of economic models.