read in my minister's div school thesis...

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"Freud engaged in what has been called "the negotiation of reality."  A dynamic characteristic of patriarchal transactions, the negotiation of reality involves the naming of reality by the person (usually male) holding the power.  Commonly, what is named as real is, in fact, an abstract distortion of reality designed to place distance between the actor and his action"

Kim Crawford Harvie, 1984