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The Way of the World: The Bildungsroman in European Culture

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Minor Detail

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The Thief's Journal

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'The novel belongs to the disciplinary field that it portrays' - the crux Miller's argument there. ...more
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So interesting to develop a materialist theory of psychotherapy. The key point being that Freud's ideas of the family are not 'nature' but rather another construct of a capitalist material reality. Also the stuff about desiring machines and the way l ...more
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