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Moving beyond the reductionist figure of homo economicus, it examines how socio-economic and cultural structures shape both historical inequality and the subjective experience of incompleteness. The analysis argues that the relationship between objective structures and individual existence is marked by tensions and constraints, but also by creative and transformative potential. 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