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extirpate

much of the plant and animal life has been extirpated to make way for Western civilization

—p.35 From shellmounds to microchips (29) by Keith A. Spencer
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Thanatos

the stillness inside me, the thanatoid silence frightening me into a last-ditch effort to stay alive

—p.170 Blindman's Buff (154) by Frank Conroy
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synoptic

Part Two presents a synoptic critique of capitalism, which identifies the problems for which socialism purports to be a solution

Compass Points: Towards a Socialist Alternative by Erik Olin Wright
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cathexis

Alice Miller's The Drama of the Gifted Child, in which the good child has been made to develop a false self by parents who cathect the child narcissistically

Me and My Shadow by Jane Tompkins
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quietism

Foucault’s later work is renowned for thinking Greek notions of the “care of the self” that can seem quietistic in terms of wider political action

Company of One: The Fate of Democracy in an Age of Neoliberalism by Peter Gratton
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