Combining original feminist analysis with a brilliant exposition of Lacan's psychoanalytic theory, Teresa Brennan recovers Lacan's neglected theory of history, and uses it to develop an historical explanation of modernity.
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Combining original feminist analysis with a brilliant exposition of Lacan's psychoanalytic theory, Teresa Brennan recovers Lacan's neglected theory of history, and uses it to develop an historical explanation of modernity.
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Minor wear. VG. 23x15cm, xv, 239 pp., PAPERBACK. Contents: 1. The problem--2. The ego's era. 'The social psychosis'. 'At the dawn of the era of the ego'. 'One returns, comes back, coming across the same path, one cross-checks it'. 'A passifying image'. 'the path of logic'. 'The symptom, as defined by Marx in the social'--3. The foundational fantasy. The subject's inertia. From the common source to the one substance--4. From the reserve army of labour to the standing reserve of nature. The time-energy axis. The law of substitution. Production and real value. The overall quantity of use-and surplus-value. The speed of acquisition. How space replaces time. The state. Reproduction: perspectives on gender, neo-colonialism and class--5. Conclusion: time and exploitation. Notes on the fantasy's history: symbolization and scale. Imaginary time. Exploitation and its opposition. Appendix: the labour theory of value and the subject-object distinction. The labour theory of value. The subject-object distinction and the living and the dead. The difference between labour and nature.
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