Fredric Jameson famously stated that 'Everything is ______' in the opening of his book 'The Political Unconscious'.
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Correct answer: political
Jameson argues that there is no such thing as a 'purely aesthetic' work. He believes that the 'political unconscious' of a text contains the traces of the historical and class struggles that the narrative tries to resolve or hide.
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