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Psychoanalysis and Capitalism

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Subtraction in Psychoanalysis

In psychoanalysis, a conception of the subject is a subtracted being. The two then can't be two ones, right? Like, there hasa subtraction within that. And i think that this actually designates almost everything we've been talking about - how do you get around that negativety?" "i want to avoid the truism like, you know, be satisfied where you are," he says. 'I don't know what the richer reward is through this process of subtraction' He adds: 'There's something ultimately like this idea of searching for a soul mate.'

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