İnflect

[Deniz Olunmalı]

"In sum, as it requires ongoing self-subordination, -denial, and -sacrifice, discipline takes on and risks all the excesses of the super-ego. Comrades can never do enough—and we place the demand to do more on ourselves. The conceptual advantage afforded by discipline is thus the jettisoning of a radical infatuation with the terror that emancipatory politics may inflect on others and the replacement of that infatuation with the sacrifices emancipatory politics demands of those who seriously undertake it." (jodi Dean, Comrade)

What does "inflect" mean here?

 

[emsr2d2]

I would say it's a typo and it should be "inflict".

 

[jutfrank]

It's quite possible that it's a typo for inflict but I'm not convinced. I think the writer may have been attempting to use the word inflect in its broad academic sense.

See the second entry, as well as the example at the bottom of the page, here: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/inflect