there's nothing in that passage which is more 'whacky' than anything found in either freud or lacan (who towards the end got far more bizarre than butler supposedly is). what exactly is the issue here?https://twitter.com/sullydish/status/1322598350504472579 …
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If you want to dismiss psychoanalysis as unscientific, philosophically suspect, incoherent etc. then sure but this is a standard feminist criticism employing the language used in the discipline. There's nothing uniquely weird about it- unless you're unfamiliar with the terms
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On the other hand she is a truly excrable prose stylist, as is on display in that second paragraph in particular.
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