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Abstract:This essay approaches the theme of “impasse and democracy” through the motif of the American dream, a dream, as many have noted, unfulfilled both at home and abroad. This lack of fulfilment is here read as a structural impasse within democracy, as a sign that democracy dreams, or is a dream, because it cannot come into its own. Building toward a sustained reading of a typically neglected volume in the Freudian corpus, his collaborative study (with William C. Bullitt) of Woodrow Wilson, this essay teases out the theoretical and political implications of thinking the dream that America remains, ambivalently idling, from a psychoanalytical point of view.
摘要:本文以美国梦为主题，探讨“僵局与民主”这一主题。正如许多人所注意到的那样，美国梦在国内外都没有实现。在这里，这种满足感的缺乏被解读为民主内部的结构性僵局，是民主在做梦的迹象，或者是一个梦，因为它无法实现自己。他与威廉·c·布利特(William C. Bullitt)合作研究了伍德罗·威尔逊(Woodrow Wilson)，这篇文章从精神分析的角度梳理了思考美国仍在矛盾地空转的梦想的理论和政治含义，旨在持续阅读弗洛伊德语料库中一本通常被忽视的书。
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