Money, love, and hate contradiction and paradox in psychoanalysis

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ID5839434
AuthorsMuriel Dimen (New York University, corresponding author)
Year1994
Volume4
Issue1
Pages69-100
Publication date1994-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePsychoanalytic Dialogues (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1048-1885 • E-ISSN: 1940-9222
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10481889409539007
OpenAlexW1997654375
LanguageEN
Citations received18
References cited20

The way analysts talk, behave, and feel in relation to money is replete with an uneasiness that is the surface manifestation of a deep, psychocultural contradiction between money and love that cannot be thought, willed, or wished away. For the clinical project to succeed, this contradiction can and must find a temporary, reparative resolution in the paradox between love and hate. This essay takes up the question of money in the spirit of the Marx-Freud tradition, in postmodern perspective, and through several languages, not only psychoanalysis, but social theory, anthropology, and less centrally, feminist theory as well. It addresses money's unconscious and emotional resonance, and its cultural meanings; money's clinical and theoretical vicissitudes in the context of cultural symbolism and economic change, as well as the class position of psychoanalysis and the psychology of class itself; and money's relational meaning in transference and countertransference

Contradiction · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications

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