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So much choice and no choice at all: a socio-psychoanalytic interpretation of consumerism as a source of pollution (2015)
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Nixon, E., & Gabriel, Y. (2016). So much choice and no choice at all: a socio-psychoanalytic interpretation of consumerism as a source of pollution. Marketing Theory, 16(1), 39-56. doi:10.1177/1470593115593624

Psychoanalytic concepts and theory have long served studies of consumption, from exposing unconscious motives to elucidating contemporary consuming desire. Sharing with psychoanalysis an interest in symbolic meanings, anthropological approaches have... Read More about So much choice and no choice at all: a socio-psychoanalytic interpretation of consumerism as a source of pollution.