The Vestal and the Fasces
 collapse sectionPrologue
 •I—  The Vestal and the Fasces
 •II—  The Feminine and Property

 collapse section1—  Hegel Avec Lacan
 collapse sectionI—  Introduction
 •A—  The Death of Property
 •B—  Hegel's Totality
 •C—  The Hole in the Whole
 collapse sectionII—  The Hegelian Story of Property
 •A—  The Internalist Approach of The Philosophy of Right
 •B—  The Artificiality of the Subject
 •C—  The Presupposition of Human Nature
 •D—  The Impossibility of Philosophy without Presuppositions; Sublation
 collapse sectionE—  The Tentative Presupposition
 •1—  Hegel V. Liberalism
 •2—  The Abstract Person and the Kantian Construct
 •F—  The Contradictions of Personality
 •G—  Objectification and Objects
 collapse sectionH—  The Elements of Property
 •1—  Possession
 •2—  Enjoyment
 •3—  The Triune Nature of Property
 collapse sectionI—  Adding the Third Term:  Alienation
 •1—  Abandonment and Gift
 •2—  Exchange
 •J—  From Hegel to Lacan
 collapse sectionIII—  The Lacanian Story of the Feminine
 collapse sectionA—  Reading Lacan
 •1—  The Patriarchal Family
 •2—  The Artificiality of Sexuality
 •3—  Sexuality as Language
 •4—  The Anatomy of Truth
 collapse sectionB—  The Real, the Imaginary, and the Symbolic
 •1—  The Opening Chapters of the Psyche's Bildungsroman
 •2—  Longing in the Three Orders
 collapse sectionC—  Adding the Third Term:  The Oedipal Romance
 •1—  Enter the Father
 •2—  Castration
 •3—  Possession, Exchange, and Sexuality
 •D—  The Phallus, Castration, and the Imaginary Collapse of the Symbolic into the Real
 •E—  "Woman Does Not Exist"
 •F—  The Woman, Property, and Jouissance
 collapse sectionIV—  An Abduction from the Seraglio
 •A—  Abduction and Jouissance
 •B—  The Radical Critique Implicit in Lacan
 collapse section2—  The Fasces:  The Masculine Phallic Metaphor for Property
 •I—  Property as the Object Petit A
 collapse sectionII—  The Axe:  The Positive Version of the Masculine Phallic Metaphor
 collapse sectionA—  Waldron and the Embrace of the Masculine Phallic Metaphor
 •1—  Defining Property
 •2—  The Physicality of Property
 •3—  Waldron's State of Nature
 collapse section4—  Waldron's Denial of Incorporeality
 •a—  Need or Desire?
 •b—  Waldron's Empirical Arguments for the Phallic Metaphor
 collapse sectionB—  Some Realism about Legal Surrealism:  The Positive Phallic Metaphor and Ostensible Ownership
 •1—  Grasping at Straws
 collapse section2—  Ostensible Ownership
 •a—  Introduction
 •b—  Custody as Evidence of Ownership
 •c—  Benedict v. Ratner
 collapse section3—  Objectification:  Hegelian Possession as an Alternative to the Paradigm of the Phallic Metaphor
 •a—  Attachment and Perfection
 collapse sectionb—  The Logic of Property
 •(1)—  Classical Liberalism and Autonomy
 •(2)—  Hegelianism and Pragmatism.
 •(3)—  Perfection, Filing, and Control.
 •(4)—  Benedict v. Ratner Redux
 collapse sectionIII—  The Bundle of Sticks:  The Negative Version of the Masculine Phallic Metaphor
 collapse sectionA—  Chix Nix Bundle-O-Stix:  A Critique of the Attempted Negation of Physicality
 •I—  Prophecies
 collapse section2—  Vandevelde's Analysis
 •a—  The Hohfeldian Attribution of the Phallic Metaphor to Blackstone
 •b—  The Lacanian Argument for Locating the Phallic Metaphor in Blackstone
 collapse section3—  Atoms V. Molecules
 •a—  Hohfeld's Attempt to Deny the Object
 •b—  Subjectivity, Objectivity, Intersubjectivity
 •4—  The Reinstatement of "Blackstonian" Property
 collapse section5—  The Supposed Disaggregation of Property in Constitutional and Private Law
 •a—  Physicality and the Federalists
 •b—  The Objects of Property
 •c—  Conceptual Severance, or "Rights Chopping."
 •d—  Property as the Public-Private Distinction
 collapse sectionB—  Musings on the Myth That the Uniform Commercial Code Disaggregated and Killed Property
 •I—  The Gates of Ivory and Horn
 •2—  Practical Men and Their Tangible Things
 collapse section3—  Article 2 as Text
 •a—  Evidence for the Disaggregation of Property
 •b—  Article 2's Clandestine Affair with Title
 collapse section4—  The Wit and Wisdom of Karl Llewellyn
 •a—  Differentiating Property from Contract
 collapse sectionb—  The Common-Law Sales Paradigm.
 •(1) Horsing Around with Karl
 •(2)—  The Process of Mercantile Sales
 •c—  Llewellyn and Hohfeld
 collapse section5—  Two Examples:  Conditional Sales and Risk of Loss
 •a—  Conditional Sales as Substance over Form
 •b—  Risk of Loss and the Movement of the Indicia of Ownership
 collapse section6—  The Continuing Primacy of Physicality in the U.C.C
 •a—  The Primacy of Physical Custody
 •b—  The Physical Metaphor in the Law of Sales
 •c—  Llewellyn's "Real-ism."
 •d—  The Imagery of Destruction and the Bundle of Sticks
 collapse sectionIV—  The Fasces:  Axe and Bundle of Sticks
 •A—  Constraints
 •B—  The Denial of the Feminine
 collapse section3—  The Vestal:  The Feminine Phallic Metaphor for Property
 collapse sectionI—  Virgin Territory:  Property as the Inviolate Feminine Body
 collapse sectionA—  Radin's Definition of Property
 •1—  The Identification with Objects
 collapse section2—  The Elements of Property
 •a—  Possession
 •b—  The Fear of Alienation
 •3—  Enjoyment; Interference as Violation
 •4—  The Donning of the Chador
 •5—  The Inalienability of Nonbody Objects
 •B—  Pluralism, Pragmatism, and Contradiction
 •C—  Market Rhetoric
 •D—  Fungible Property
 collapse sectionII—  A Return to Hegel's Theory of Property
 •A—  Radin's Misreading
 •B—  Hegel and Community
 •C—  The Starting Presupposition of Personality
 •D—  Limitations of Positive Law
 •E—  Is Hegel Useful in a Feminist Challenge to Masculinism?
 •III—  The Implications for Feminist Property Theory
 collapse section4—  The Woman Does Not Exist:  The Impossible Feminine and the Possibility of Freedom
 collapse sectionI—  Never Jam Today:  The Impossibility of Takings Jurisprudence
 •A—  Introduction
 •B—  The Permissible Limitation on Property
 collapse sectionC—  The Liberal Dilemma of Takings Law
 •1—  Property and the Constitution
 •2—  The Supposed Disintegration of Property
 •3—  The Seemingly Endless Diversity of Property
 •4—  Rights Chopping
 •5—  Metonymy
 •D—  Quality and Quantity
 collapse sectionE—  The Movement of Sublation
 •1—  Negation and Preservation
 •2—  Contradiction, Potentiality, and Actuality
 •3—  Sublation as Quantum Leap
 collapse sectionF—  Takings and Freedom
 •1—  Freedom
 •2—  Totalitarianism
 collapse sectionII—  The Impossibility of the Feminine and the Possibility of Freedom
 •A—  Lacanian Freedom
 •B—  I've Believed . . . Impossible Things . . .
 •C—  The Necessary Loss of Virginity

  Epilogue:  Vesta, the Phallic Woman
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