This article pursues to test the Freudian's arguments about Marx through direct encounter with the arguments of Freud and Marx's work. Since then, raises the hypothesis that Freud always deals with the Marxian's shadow, in other words, with the result of the projection of interpretations made by a third one about Marx, especially Soviet Marxism and the interpretations of Adler and Reich. Therefore, the current meeting between Marx and Freud for the XXI century presupposes the act of radical critique in two stages: both as regards the legitimation of the Soviet Marxism as representative of Marx, as the rejection to Freud's politically problematic appropriation about Marx.
Freud; Marx; critical theory; capitalism; Marxism