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This is a reflection on the “generic being” in Marx through the confrontation of Althusser and Lukács in the context of the 1960s, guided by Faust's question about the “destiny of Marx's anthropology of youth”. As this context is exemplarily presented by Althusser, we will start with some criticisms of the author (Fausto, Giannotti, Cardoso) and move on to his analysis of the context, which will allow us to read him simultaneously through certain Brazilian issues and, mainly, based on his own references (in addition to Marx, French epistemology and Lacanian psychoanalysis) – which his dialectical critics rarely propose. If, on the one hand, this confrontation reveals Faust's “humanized man” as a type of highly problematic Owe-being – a Owe-being correlative to that which has haunted Lukács since his youth – such problematic character, on the other hand, indicates the difficulty of conceiving “man” based on the perfect congruence between will, desire and knowledge. The objective of this research, therefore, is to establish conditions for reflection on this problem at the intersection of French and German philosophy.