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Todd McGowan, "Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets" (Columbia UP, 2016)

New Books in Psychoanalysis

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The Letdown of Every Exciting Acquisition

I love this line on page 33 where you really capture the letdown of every exciting acquisition that we make. One ends up with just an ordinary empirical object that pales in comparison. I feel like my listeners might need to hear a bit more from you about how is that so why, why would we find that that lack satisfying what is satisfying about it? The things are gone and all of a sudden that space through in which we can desire something and find it enjoyable find it satisfying it disappears.

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