Magical thinkers: Trevor Turner sorts through the kind of infantilized thought so dear to the hearts of our political class.

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DELUSIONS OF POWER

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Magical thinkers: Trevor Turner sorts through the kind of infantilized thought so dear to the hearts of our political class.

Psychoanalysis went on many strange trips--but provides an imaginative understanding of how some people function. It may not necessarily be 'true', but for now it helps explain a lot. In fact, it's been so good at explaining things that it has become the theoretical core of the advertising industry and the modern state. It does this by informing an infantile narcissistic culture, that relentlessly promotes super-individualism. People are enticed into economic depen...

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