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James Wakefield - The Political Theology of Dune

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

CHAPTER

The Golden Path

I wanted to give James some background onto why I think the sort of Freud and Jung, the psychoanalytic aspects of that sort of infiltrate the whole series. That's ultimately what I'm trying to say through like a, like a kind of crude dielectic in God Emperor is the way that for example he uses this tactic against the would it be the Ixians or not? So basically space travel that does not rely upon the spice which can only be combined on Iraq is right so this is one thing to break this economic monopoly and this sort of propping up by this one particular substance but also an obvious choke point for civilization etc. The dialect is a lot more complex than this

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