7: The emergence of enabling constraints: power relations and unconscious processes

  • Turn-taking, power and ideology
  • The dynamics of inclusion-exclusion and anxiety
  • Fantasy and unconscious processes
  • Conclusion

The last three chapters have outlined an argument in which the starting position is that humans are fundamentally social animals. In other words, the distinctive feature of humanity is the sophisticated manner in which individual human bodies undertake joint action, that is, cooperate with each other, in order to survive and develop. This joint action, which they undertake to transform their environment in the interest of their survival and development, is accomplished by the use of tools and this requires continuous communicative interaction ...

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