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The Other Woman: The Complete Lack of Symbolic Identity

I think a lot of people who thought about it in psychometric terms thought about him as someone who never gave ground relevant to his desire. And that... Right, right. So this complete lack of symbolic identity or this willingness to put your symbolic identity aside. In his case, it's for total evil. But there also... It's also the vehicle for him to make these breaks from the logic that governs everyone else in the advertising agency. Don just tells Roger that he offered him a job. We never see this on screen. I think whether it's, there are two readings, which is that Roger totally did it and he shouldn't have, because he was drunk, or it just

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