Desire and Fate

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Desire and Fate
Desire and Fate

Desire and Fate

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davidrieff
Jun 18, 2022
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“It’s seeing and not seeing at the same time.” This is how the British psychoanalyst Adam Phillips has characterized the psychological response of denial. That also seems to me to be a good definition of contemporary utopianism.

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