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OBJECT RELATIONS | Lewis R. Gordon: Frantz Fanon and Black Conciousness

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The Moralization of Reality

Francois Tiscuillis developed a theory called institutional therapy and institutional therapy was basically the idea that it's not that you are individually mentally ill but illness is a relationship a relational situation. The project was to create healthy communities because the hospital itself was a sick institution so one would have to create a better sense if you have a hospital where people in straight jackets are being going through lobotomies and isolated more isolated human beings are, as I say in my book Fair Blood Consciousness. neo-liberalism and liberalism they want our moral subjects not political subjects says John Rawls.

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