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Here, we pursue our reading of the traces left by the Freudian event in Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks. These traces are always fragmentary and indirect, and yet valuable, both for a clear understanding of Gramscian thought in its singularity, and as the suggestion of a possible future for the work of psychoanalysis in Marxism, and of Marxism for psychoanalysis. Taking our interpretation further, we insist on the ethical function that Gramsci attributed to Freudian intelligence as a fundamental instrument to build a new type of ethics, especially as concerns the definition of a new “feminine personality,” the need to overcome her “inferiority complex,” and the need to counter the repercussions of any new “collective Man ideal.”