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topography of mind

Totem and Taboo (Freud)

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Turner, Mark

unconscious mind

underdetermination, theory-ladenness of observation and

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Veal, Ann

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Veblen, Thorstein

virtue, character and. See also morality

Wal-Mart

Warnke, Georgia

Weatherman, J. Walter

Freudian psychology and

narrative and

personal identity and

Weathers, Carl

gender identity and

knowledge and

Whitehead, Mrs.

White Power Bill

bad faith and

moral character and

Wife of Gob

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of bad faith

moral character and

of repugnance

Wonder, Tony

Zuckerkorn, Barry

theory-ladenness of observation and

treason and

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One: Family First

Chapter 1: Is the Examined Life a Huge Mistake?

The Life of Arrested Development Is Not Worth Living

Michael: “The Good One, the Moral One, the Fool.”

Gob: “They’re Laughing with Me, Michael, They’re Laughing with Me.”

Lindsay: “You Call Yourself an Environmentalist, Why Don’t You Go Club a Few Beavers?”

Tobias: “You Blow Hard.”

The Arresting of Happiness

Chapter 2: Kissing Cousins

The Argument from Naturalism

The Yuck Factor, and the Wisdom of Repugnance

Chapter 3: Freudian Arrested Development

Analysts and Therapists for the Bluths

Use Your Allusion: Freud

Perhaps an Attic Shall I Seek—The Unconscious

Freud’s Company Model

Prove It: Baiting the Unconscious

Shémale and Misreadings

Michael, Marta, Ann Other Freudian Slips

Motherboy, or the Oedipus Complex

Totem . . . : Boyfights

. . . and Taboo: Les Cousins Dangereux

Pop-Pop Gets Put on the Couch?

Chapter 4: Don’t Know Thyself

Gob Isn’t Just Deceiving Himself

Gob Plays His Roles

Be Yourself, Gob

Gob Makes Huge Mistakes in Good Faith

The Wisdom of Bad Faith

Part Two: A Business Model

Chapter 5: Dr. Fünke’s 100 Percent Natural Good-Time Alienation Solution

Happy Bluthday to You! The Bluth Family History

Marx and Alienation—Or, How to Never Succeed in Life While Really, Really Trying

A Case of “Light Treason”: A Man Who Would Do Anything to Make a Buck

Lucille and Gob

Meet the Fünkes

Michael

Don’t Buy This Book! Down with Capitalism!

Chapter 6: Family First

Product Safety: The Cornballer

Marketing Ethics: The Model Home

Treatment of Employees: The Banana Stand and Child Labor

Treatment of Employees: The Office and the Construction Site

International Business: “Light” Treason

Moral Development Arrested

Chapter 7: Bourgeois Bluths

Your Uncle Doesn’t Not Work Here Anymore: Marx, Labor, and Capital

It’s a Gaming Ship: Consumption and Leisure

There’s Always Money in the Banana Stand: Class Status and Performance

I Thought You Meant of the Things You Eat: the Bluths and the Politics of the Family

The Important Thing Is That You Guys Don’t Lose Focus on Yourselves: Narcissism as a Crisis of Bourgeois Identity

Part Three: Some Huge Mistakes

Chapter 8: What Whitey Isn’t Ready to Hear

You There, Reading This Book . . .

Whatever I Do, I Won’t Quote Hegel

It Ain’t Easy Bein’ White

Stuff Whitey Isn’t Ready to Hear; African-Americany Might Not Be Ready, Either . . .

An Ethics of Identity

Chapter 9: “I Just Blue Myself”

I Christen This Ship the Lucille

“I’ve Been a Horrible Mother.”

“Blueing” Oneself

The Hearer Doesn’t Just Lay There, Michael, If That