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The Lacanian Left, Self-Help, and the Family feat. Richard Seymour
Emancipations Podcast
The Rise of the Superman
The idea that you are the author of what happens to you has been sort of, it's moved across the gender barrier. That can be seen as a form of progress, but it also means that this model of masculinity was profoundly problematic. And gradually we've been moving in the direction where not only is it acceptable to have a massively inflated sense of yourself and your powers, such that you might not have grown up much since you were four years old. Not only is that acceptable, but it's actually demanded. It's culturally validated. You have to be superwoman. There used to be something, I forget, there was a woman called Nicola Horlick in the United Kingdom who was
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