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Today's episode is part three in a series on Delus.

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So, in 1983, Gile Delus and Felix Squadri released the first book of what would eventually be a

two-volume series that aimed at discussing the political reality of the modern Western world.

The title of the series that was alluding to the situation they're about to describe in the

Western world was capitalism and schizophrenia.

Now, the forward of the first book was written by someone we recently talked about on the show,

Michelle Foucault, and Foucault when writing the forward to this book talks about how the 20th

century has been marked by a whole bunch of philosophers looking back, trying to warm over and

reimagine the work of Freud and Marx, and an attempt to arrive at some sort of synthesis.

Some new interpretation or combination of these older ideas that can provide us with a new

perspective moving forward. Remember, Freud and Marx are seen as the sort of proto-structuralists

that foreshadowed the structuralism of the 20th century.

Freud, through the introduction of the concept of the unconscious mind, showed how it was possible

that fundamental parts of your character and preferences and motivations can come from places

that you're completely unaware of, at least consciously. Marx, through his superstructure theory,

showed how it was possible that things that are produced within a society, including ideas,

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