Capitalism and Desire: In Dialogue with Psychoanalysis
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Does Froud's Psychoanalysis Succeed?
A big critique of psychoanalysis from the marxes perspective is that it encourages people to look inward for the causes of their problems, instead of outward at social and material conditions. Froud himself was pretty anti munist and civin discontents of his critiques communism. But i think a good way to transform this set of critiques into a concrete question would be as follows: Does psychoanalysis interpret the subjectivity of human beings under capitalism? Or does it interpret the subjective of human s more broadly, beyond the confines of any specific set of material conditions? Ok, that's a great question. Andis, i'd say the latter. So ay. Let's move on and talk about mar
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