Capitalism and Desire: In Dialogue with Psychoanalysis
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Are There Psychoanalytic Thinkers Who Continue to Say That?
Psychoanalytic thinkers who continue to assert that it is though, to day? Ye, i think so. Because they're tied to this idea that the brain sciences are going to actually find these neurological things that prove freud was right. Even if that's true, that still doesn't ever solve the problem of subjectivity. For psychoanalysis, desire itself is an illusion. And for buddhism, there is no subject without desire. So that lack attached to subjectivity is intractable. Like you can't, like, somehow through meditation, giving up your ability to meditate.
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