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Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Psychoanalytic Hostility to Politics 1 Part I: Subjectivity 1. The Formation of Subjectivity 25 2. The Economics of the Drive 52 3. Class Status and Enjoyment 79 4. Sustaining Anxiety 99 5. Changing the World 121 Part II: Society 6. The Appeal of Sacrifice 143 7. Against Knowledge 167 8. The Politics of Fantasy 196 9. Beyond Bare Life 223 10. The Necessity of Belief 243 11. The Case of the Missing Signifier 263 Conclusion: A Society of the Death Drive 283 Notes 287 Index 339 ...

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