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This paper investigates how the cultural domain captures relational value amid a symbolic crisis, distinguishing it from scarcity-based value.

July 7, 2026Open Access

The Extraction of Relational Value in the Cultural Domain: A Lacanian-Psychoanalytic Deconstruction of Political Economy

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This paper investigates how the cultural domain captures relational value amid a symbolic crisis, distinguishing it from scarcity-based value.
Deconstructs the relationship between political economy and cultural value using Lacanian psychoanalytic theory.
Analyzes the distinction between symbolically guaranteed value and relational value within cultural contexts.
Explores the implications of capital's commodification of cultural relations and its impact on desire and alienation.
Identifies that capital, driven by economic interests, commodifies culture, transforming drive into desire.
Argues that relational value, essential to cultural domains, is exposed during economic crises.
Finds that capital cannot embody relationality but can only possess relations as an owner.

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Theoretical exploration uncovers cultural value's relational nature, suggesting implications for economic relations.

Wanhong HUANG (2026) studied this question.

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