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Between Mind and Matter: in Search of the Marx/Freud Synthesis

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The problem of the psychic and the social is the problem of the third, and the third is a problem of dualism. This point is illustrated with regard to both clinic and theory. The Marx/Freud synthesis is not a blending of dualities, but a site: The nexus of mental and material, at the heart of which is reflexivity, is a third site that is provisional, unstable, determinable only in debate.

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Correspondence to Muriel Dimen.

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Dimen, M. Between Mind and Matter: in Search of the Marx/Freud Synthesis. Psychoanal Cult Soc 9, 52–62 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.pcs.2100004

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