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Freud’s psychoanalysis, that is to say, takes the medical model of cure – at once a healing and a relieving of pain – and puts it into question (the cure of and for a broken leg is less contentious than the cure for a broken heart). Where we might think there are only conscious choices (and unconscious choices), we have, in Freud’s view, unconscious determinisms; __when we know what we want, we may be taking refuge from what we more troublingly want, or from what we as yet don’t know that we want (we may underestimate our need to displace our wants, to relocate them to make them more acceptable).__ We are not, to mix Freud’s familiar metaphors, masters in our own houses, we are driving the horse in the direction the horse wants to go.
On Getting Better
Adam Phillips
people do have a notion of the social value of their work; but our society has reached the point where not only is the social value of work usually in inverse proportion to its economic value (the more one’s work benefits others, the less one is likely to be paid for it), but many people have come to accept this situation is morally right—they genuinely believe this is how things ought to be.
Bullshit Jobs
David Graeber
Because different social structures are always intertwined, there is no such thing as taking action only with respect to capitalism, or patriarchy, and so on, in isolation from other social structures. __All political campaigns, individuals, organisations, and projects are in fact already practising a politics on class and race and gender, and so on – whether they recognise it or not.__
Prefigurative Politics
Paul Raekstad and Sofia Saio Gradin
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