By T. Dean
This publication provides a brand new idea of yankee tradition dependent now not at the phenomenologically- and existentially-derived vocabularies of attention, that have ruled prior debts, yet particularly on a revitalized idea of the subconscious. Drawing at the writings of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, Dean develops a conception of the structure of the very proposal of the US itself as in line with a sophisticated relation to the yank panorama.
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