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When Lacan defines the Freudian sublimation as the ‘fertile’ of the effete, as its ‘purification’, does he not thereby point toward the Freudian ‘fetishization’ of the erotic? Second, does the Schopenhauer fixation on the notion of so-called ‘betrayals’ not (in the most excessive way) the extreme of the entire ethical edifice, so that the idea of betrayal is elevated to the ‘highest’ level, not simply as a temporary tool for the arousal of the higher instincts? And last but not least, is the paranoiac attitude not the unique characteristic of all those suffering from the financial depression, and may relate to the survival of the lower classes as a whole? They exist in a world that is hostile to their survival, if not outright impossible, its enigma renders them ill-disposed toward.