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Why Culture? A Psychoanalytic Speculation

Abstract

A strong speculation on the origins of culture per se, using Freud's early thinking about the overthrow of the Leader and Lacan's idea of the Master. In this essay I look into what I call "Anti-Culture" as the operations of those seeking to regain the exclusive ownership of power that culture alone can fully work against

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