the labor movement loves to trace its lineages through the deep palimpsest of antecedent organizations and their mergers and the internal culture shifts they necessitated
But I would also claim that fantasy and imagination have become not only self-generated, but also autotelic, becoming their own (pleasurable) goals
This idea had a tremendous impact on the collective view and treatment of romantic misery, suggesting it is a salutary dimension of the process of maturation
In the now classic Freudian screen theory popularized by Laura Mulvey, the male gaze partakes in a scopophilic desire to look, but is threatened by the castrating power of the image of the woman
Competition implies not equality but inequality. Some are just better than others and deserve more. It is as ideological and self-proving a nostrum as exchange, of course.
