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The Prince

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Machiavelli's Perspective on Reading Texts

This chapter explores Machiavelli's perspective on reading texts from a psychoanalytic standpoint, including his questioning of the existence of the state and his focus on the opposition between democracies and principalities. It also delves into the concept of the paranoid thing and the theory of state security, as well as the historical context of Italy's lack of unity.

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