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Read My Desire, Pt. 2: Democracy, Anxiety, Film Noir

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The French Film Return of Martin Gayer

The film doesn't give away literally what happens in the film but like theoretically and structurally speaking is that al roberts destroys his symbolic position. He then adopts another one and then he's nowhere, no longer a part of the symbolic pact. i think the way that like john shows this throughlike through that the chapter of locked room lonely room it's magnificent to put a evaluative word on it right? It's also illuminating about what psychoanalysis shows us about the socio symbolic spaceright right right right like psychoanalysis.

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