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Week of 25 Oct

V. Amour-Propre.

The love that needs witnesses: Rousseau separates amour de soi, plain self-preservation, from amour-propre, the self-regard that exists only by comparison and needs other people's eyes to survive. He thought the second was the source of nearly all human misery. (Rousseau, Discourse on Inequality, part two). "Everything, every little thing that I did, I dedicated it to him." - plastic wrap

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  1. 11 OctI. Bad FaithNext
  2. 18 OctII. The Look
  3. 25 OctIV. Mimetic Desire
  4. 25 OctV. Amour-PropreThis week
  5. 8 NovIII. The Desire to Be Desired
  6. 15 NovVI. Knowing Better
  7. 22 NovVII. The Moment and the Memory
  8. 29 NovVIII. Why Them
  9. 6 DecIX. Grieving the Living
  10. 13 DecX. The Girl in the Photograph
  11. 20 DecXI. The Crowd
  12. 27 DecXII. The Ending You Wanted

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