Download or read book Sociological Trespasses written by James Aho and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2011-05-05 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Racism, collective violence, sickness, environmental catastrophe, body obsession, greed, and accelerated life concern everyone. In this book, however, they are not viewed as social problems to be solved by technical experts. Instead, they are viewed as products of the joint transference of aspects of ourselves onto objects independent of ourselves. More specifically, they emerge from conviction there is something "out there” that can complete us, secure us, fill us, stabilize us, or in some other way enable us to escape from or deny our "lack": our existential precariousness or death.