“梦总是领先于生活的。”路易•阿尔都塞在给情人克莱尔的信中写道。

1984年，就在他写作那本著名的自传《来日方长》之前，这位犯了谋杀案的哲学家翻阅了许多被他留存在文档里的梦的记录，试图在其中找出那件不可挽回的行为的预兆，以便日后通过自传理解和解释为何他会在1980年时扼死了自己的妻子埃莱娜•利特曼。

这本书根据时间顺序收录了他在1941年到1967年间留下的关于梦的主要记录。他把这些梦称作“无尽的焦虑之梦”：“我从梦里醒来后，一切都没有了。只剩下了喉间的木鞋声。只剩下了挥舞着的手，绝望地在空中划着轮廓……”

本书的结尾刊录了一篇惊人的文本：1985年，在那起谋杀案后，阿尔都塞假托其主治医师之名写的笔记——我们有理由认为这篇笔记其实是他与自己的对话。

这位犯了谋杀案的哲学家，他在历史上独一无二的特殊命运，既吸引着人们，又让人困惑不已。

——比岱

梦背后的东西，在梦之前就已经存在了。

——阿尔都塞

梦是清醒生活的继续，它总是与我们最近意识中的观念不谋而合，只需要仔细观察，梦的内容可以在清醒生活中找到根源。

——弗洛伊德

The groundbreaking Marxist philosopher provides unique appraisals of major writers.

A prominent member of the French structuralist movement, Louis Althusser was influential for reinvigorating Marxist thought in France in the 196Os with celebrated works such as For Marx and Reading Capital. Yet many readers are not as familiar with the profound impact of psychoanalysis on Althusser's life and work. Writings on Psychoanalysis gathers, for the first time, Althusser's major essays on psychoanalytic thought. The volume begins with Freud and Lacan, which lays the groundwork for comprehending Althusser's entry into psychoanalysis. Letters to D. was the result of Althusser's fervent reading of Rene Diatkine's paper "Aggressiveness and Fantasies of Aggression, " years before Diatkine was his psychoanalyst. Invited by Leon Chertok to participate in the "International Symposium on the Unconscious, " at the Tbilisi colloquium, the chapter The Tbilisi Affair presents Althusser's essay "The Discovery of Dr. Freud." The chapter In the Name of the Analysands... reprints Althusser's "Open Letter to Analysands and Analysts in Solidarity with Jacques Lacan, " written the day after the famous meeting on the dissolution of the Ecole Freudienne de Paris. Characterizing Lacan as a "magnificent and pitiful Harlequin, " the 'open letter' relates Althusser's untimely outburst at that assembly and the "spectacular and violent intervention he subsequently made in the presence of Lacan." The volume closes with the correspondence between Althusser and Lacan, detailing their first and last meetings with each other and the launching of one of the central alliances of contemporary French thought.