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The Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon: Colonial War, Mental Illness, and Psychoanalysis

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Marxism and Psychoanalysis

i think that Marxism broadly sort of needs or asks for some supplements for dealing with subjectivity. There's not a lot in Marxism that tries to address the internal lives of beings right we all have an inner life we all have a subjectivity and so you'll often see Marxists try to find some other way to to fill that blind spot  - i've often talked about my love and deep influence and Buddhism and meditation practice to deal with that. The sartre and and fenan certainly take existentialism as the new humanism to fill that sort of individual subjective gap left neglected by Marxism. And then psychoanalysis is the other big one that often comes in to fill that void

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