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Alienation

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The Symbolic Economies

John Joseph Gu makes this point in a book called Symbolic Economies. He's basically making your critique of psychoanalysis for like mirroring the structure of capitalism. I think you can make the argument maybe for Marx if the – Oh, interesting. The value of the – I don't think so. Why? Well I was just going to say like if you think about like the commodity value as being representing the subject for one and not another. But it's not a base – a fundamental alienation into the signifier for Marx.

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