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Capitalism and Desire: In Dialogue with Psychoanalysis

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Are You Looking for an Object in So Far as It's Missing?

The point of desire is actually tokep that situation going, not to get something that would there's because there's no object it could fill the lack. What you're desiring when you desire is an object in so far as it's lacking. And i think that's where capitalism clearly plays in. The people on top ind capitalism, the ones that feel like they need the most, are the ones who will never be satisfied with what they have.

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