In this issue:

• Contents: 115 Contents Page

• Commentary: A grin without a cat

  The French Right returns to office

  - Jim Wolfreys

• Article: The introduction of the Oedipus Complex and the reinvention of instinct

  Freud’s Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality

  - Philippe Van Haute

• Article: ‘The history of truth’

  Alain Badiou in French philosophy

  - Etienne Balibar

• Article: All their play becomes fruitful

  The utopian child of Charles Fourier

  - Maeve Pearson

• Reviews: 115 Reviews

  John Kraniauskas, Terry Eagleton, Monica Mookherjee, Iain MacKenzie, Mandy Merck and Alan Sinfield

• Conference Report: Return(s) to Marx? Institut français and Tate Modern, London, 31 May–1 June 2002

  Stewart Martin