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A good friend of ours once went to Chinatown to look for a cheap, fake Gucci purse. After some searching she stumbled into the back of a store where beautiful fake handbags hung from the ceiling like stalactites growing from a cave roof in a calcium-rich mountain range. She bought an imitation Gucci purse, proud [...]

Some time ago, in an earlier edition of our weekly psychoanalysticle Freudian Fridays, we looked at some of the most overt, excessive and unsubtle phallic monuments built by man. While the need to put power, potency and might into concrete (and steel and glass) expression smacks of typical late-capitalist chauvinism, it would be a mistake [...]