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09: The Pleasure of the Text: The Standard Edition

Ordinary Unhappiness

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6,400 pages. 20-3 volumes, lesson appendix, half a century of writing. A quarter century in editing. Sprawling menagerie of books, papers, case histories, memoirs,. occasional speeches, obituaries, and self-betrayals. Why dreams are weird, and what they mean. The two genders, its edifice, all the way down. Oral, anal, and other ways of being neurotic. Cavemen, they're just like us. Are Christians cannibal? Is everybody? Anti-Semitism. What's the deal? A world war. The great war. The war to end all wars. And another radical new theory of mind

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