Vestal and the Fasces

In this feminist exploration of the erotics of the marketplace, Hegel''s notion of property and Lacan''s idea of the phallus serve parallel functions in creating the subjectivity necessary for self-actualization. Subjectivity requires intersubjective relationships mediated through a regime of possessing, enjoying, and exchanging an object of desire. For Hegel, this regime is property; for Lacan, i...