
Symbolic Order
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Reification in Psychoanalytic Terms
Reification is like an artificial process okay or engaging in capitalism and that then becomes to be seen as a natural fact of the world. If you treat your cell phone in a reified manner you don't see the way in which kids in the Congo mining for cobalt were necessary the production of that phone. I think we can have a psychoanalytic redemption of the notion of reification as a as a redemption of the idea of of the symbolic order, says John Rawlinson.
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