Psychoanalysis, Anti-semitism and the Miser
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20187472 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephen Frosh (0000-0002-0754-3505, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 72 |
| Issue | 72 |
| Pages | 94-106 |
| Publication date | 2011-08-14 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Formations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0950-2378 • E-ISSN: 1741-0789 |
| Publisher | Lawrence and Wishart (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3898/newf.72.07.2011 |
| OpenAlex | W1966388925 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Book synopsis: Responding to the trauma of the current global financial crisis, this book brings together an eclectic group of psychoanalysts, philosophers, cultural theorists and historians to debate the links between psychology, money and economic crashes. It issues a double challenge - to economists who define economic behaviour as necessarily rational and self-interested, while relegating other models of monetary thought to psychopathology; and to psychoanalysts who find it hard to confront the economics of their own profession as a business, while neuroticising and biologising any economic behaviour that exceeds their own unspoken yardstick of 'commonsensical' financial self-interest. \n \nContributors to this book investigate issues as diverse as: the century-old divorce between psychological and economic explanations of human behaviour and current efforts to repair it; the gender-politics, ethics and psychology of economists' attempts to explain today's rolling crisis in money markets; psychoanalytic theories of financial investment, risk and the 'jouissance' of devastating loss; the rise and cataclysmic fall of Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme; the squandering of fortunes on rubbishy art in times of financial crisis; the attraction of Deleuzian speculation versus Freudian investment; the nexus between political economy and libidinal economy; the mystifying effects of treating 'the market' as a subject capable of 'speaking', 'reacting' and 'punishing'; and the fate of desire in postmodern, hyper-commoditised culture
Psychoanalysis · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.21 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2012 - 2017 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |