This book has argued that Lacan understood psychoanalysis to be closely related to the Marxist project, but also that he thought psychoanalysis dismantled this project in important ways. The conclusion asks what, if anything, this clarifies about the political status of psychoanalysis. It emphasises that Lacan’s complication and deferral of politics was already present in the Marxist thought contemporary to his work that the book has been discussing. The conclusion argues that whilst Lacan was critical of the political ambitions and intellectual foundations of this movement, he did not aim to replace or reorient these, but to make something important about them visible in a new way.