08: Political Economy, Libidinal Economy
Ordinary Unhappiness
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The Importance of Identity in Mental Health
Patrick Cronin: We can ask questions like what about people whose whole role seems to be on the one hand disliking that type of identification right. They're identifying with an entire social order where they're like well you know it's really terrible that a vigilante had to kill this guy but they kind of had to do it and honestly that should be the role of police so instead of his guy being killed by some random strap hanger he should have just been spent the rest of his life in a little hole in rikers. He says we might say that this is not necessarily any more or less of a working through of anxiety or pleasure than that other position but it just does it through a
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