Bound by Infinities: Technology, Immediacy and Our Environmental Crisis*
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Natural and Formal Infinities†
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عنوان ژورنال: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis
سال: 2020
ISSN: 0002-9548,1573-6741
DOI: 10.1057/s11231-020-09258-8