The author interrogates the limits of psychoanalytic practice and psychoanalytically inclined political theory. The limits of psychoanalytically inclined political theory are read for what they can tell us about the lasting eclipse of the political, and so, inversely, for what they can tell us about what a viable political culture requires, just as the limits of the political efficacy of psychoanalytic practice are read for what they can tell us about what would be required for its successful realization.