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And far from being a rupture, a break with the past, in its psychoanalytic version conversion sustains continuity: in a sense we are more successfully our past selves after a conversion than before. What Ferenczi called in a memorable phrase ‘transitory conversions’ are the story of our life. To sustain our pleasure, our pleasure in life, we have to be very good at converting and being converted.
On Wanting to Change
Adam Phillips
The institutionalized cultural common sense that these class traitors confront shows that __not only is the personal political — that is, “personal” issues have “political” causes — but also that the political is personal, in that the obstacles to systemic change are located in our identities, intimate relationships, and understandings of self and other.__
Against Accumulation: Class Traitors Challenge Wealth and Worth
Rachel Sherman
THE SYSTEM OF POWER which lurks in modern forms of flexibility consists of three elements: discontinuous reinvention of institutions; flexible specialization of production; and concentration of without centralization of power.
The Corrosion of Character
Richard Sennett
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