It is clear to me from reading Stephen Brookefield's 'The Power of Critical Theory for Adult Learning and Teaching' (2005) that modern Marxist theory is in especial need of a robust and pertinent model of subjective ontology if it is to satisfactorily explicate the relationship it insists exists between the repressive social structures produced by the deterritorializing encroachments of late capitalism and the subsequent generation of a false consciousness that blindly colludes in its own disempowerment....

In her essay on the psychoanalytic use of topological structures Nathalie Charraud writes;

'For Lacan, the structure of the subject of the unconscious as subject of the signifier is, in fact, the Mobius strip; a surface of inscription where front and back are but one continuous side. It is this structure that offers a solution to the problem of double inscription that so vexed Freud''.

The essential properties of the Mobius strip that help us understand the Lacanian structuralist...

If anything identifies Freud as an innovative thinker it is his claim that there is an 'unconscious' mind which importantly can be observed and understood using scientific methods - of which, more later. Many other thinkers such as William James had already used the term but had made only passing reference to it - in discussions of sleepwalking, hypnotic suggestion and so on - as though it were one of those inscrutable facts of nature, which, whilst an interesting and fundamental component of the...