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I would now like to draw attention to the social capture of desire, especially when such capture comes to function in an extreme form, and arrives at that point which the Western tradition defines as marking the place of an encounter with madness. Normalisation passes through a space of enounter with evil. It is a space which all powers have known how to manipulate, from the time that, having loosened all the constraints of legality, they could only govern diabolically. The adverb diabolically should be kept in mind and will be clarified shortly.
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© 1997 Peter Goodrich
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Goodrich, P. (1997). Parenthesis: To Fascinate. In: Goodrich, P. (eds) Law and the Unconscious. Language, Discourse, Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25974-8_5
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