Cruel Optimism: Affect Theory and the Structure of Feeling
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The Relationship Between Affect Theory and Psychoanalysis
I think it's helpful to think of Berlin's work as a critique of capitalism that in many of their writing, they were very critical of capitalism. The capitalist element is also a historical kind of boundary for a lot of these thinkers who are interested in what life feels like under late capitalism. And I think this idea of attachment is maybe one place to locate that thinking and also this idea of fantasy. We're stuck or paralyzed by this idea because we can't detach from it without sort of being able to free ourselves from some particular kind of cycle.
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