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In this essay I offer a partial, necessarily provisional reading of Henri Lefebvre’s account of the production of space through the grille of concepts provided by Lacanian pschoanalytic theory. This is a dificult undertaking but also, I imagine, an unusual and unexpected one, and so I need to spell out my reasons for doing so as carefully as I can.
«In advance of the invasion we will hear from the depths of mirrors the clatter of weapons.»
Jorge Luis Borges
The Book of Imaginary Beings
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Gregory, D. (1995). Lefebvre, Lacan and the production of space. In: Benko, G.B., Strohmayer, U. (eds) Geography, History and Social Sciences. The GeoJournal Library, vol 27. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1681-9_2
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