The Vestal and the Fasces

 expand sectionPrologue

 expand section1—  Hegel Avec Lacan
 collapse section2—  The Fasces:  The Masculine Phallic Metaphor for Property
 I—  Property as the Object Petit A
 expand sectionII—  The Axe:  The Positive Version of the Masculine Phallic Metaphor
 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
 expand section2—  Vandevelde's Analysis
 expand section3—  Atoms V. Molecules
 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
 expand sectionB—  Musings on the Myth That the Uniform Commercial Code Disaggregated and Killed Property
 expand sectionIV—  The Fasces:  Axe and Bundle of Sticks
 expand section3—  The Vestal:  The Feminine Phallic Metaphor for Property
 expand section4—  The Woman Does Not Exist:  The Impossible Feminine and the Possibility of Freedom

  Epilogue:  Vesta, the Phallic Woman
 expand sectionIndex

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