Farley Anthony Paul author Columbia University. Law originator text Articles 2012 English This Essay on modern progress spins out of Marxism a theory of time about which Marxism itself has remained largely unconscious. Marxism is a theory of the already-taken. Critical Race Theory has as its animating spirit, its haunt, a related—but up until now only latent—temporal theory of the already-taken. The unconscious, we learn from psychoanalysis, does not know time; it is timeless. The authority of law comes to us from this same time out of mind. The four corners of this Essay's theory of the already-taken are Marxism, Critical Race Theory, psychoanalysis, and jurisprudence. The already-taken is the unconscious of law. Law Political science 1 3 247 264 2012-07 2155-2401 http://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:15004 NNC NNC 2012-10-20 00:28:53 -0400 2012-10-22 10:24:12 -0400 9008 eng