Hi - this reminds me strongly of Norman O. Brown's Life Against Death: The
Psychoanalytic Meaning of History (1959) - there's a long section on money
and psychoanalysis -
- Alan
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, phanero wrote:
In psychoanalytical terms, modern secularism is no release from the Oedipus
complex,
from which Freud said religion was derived; it is only the transfer of the
projections originating
in the Oedipus complex, from the world of spirits to the world of things.
"The last figure
in the series beginning with the parents is that dark supremacy of Fate,"
says Freud
[Fate stood above the gods.], indicating the residues of the parental complex
in secular
thought. It still remains true that religion is the middle term connecting
psychoanalysis
and society. If there is to be a psychoanalysis of money it must start from
the hypothesis
that the money complex has the essential structure of religion - or, if you
will, the negation
of religion, the demonic, which ~is~ like the role of the sphinx, a
performance of paradox,
or a "possession by possession" / a feedback circuit, an aegis of the absent
waters (language).
The psychoanalytical theory of money must start by establishing the
proposition that money
is, in Shakespeare's words, the "visible god"; in Luther's words, "the God of
this world."
But take pause in the subspace to discover the body lingering like a paranoia
even in
the names: Shakespeare.. Returning to Freud. Seminalismo / Perversion /
Herm{eneutics
and Luther like some transparent guitar or maker of guitarre, and back to
Oedipus, to the
lutes, the rounded and resonating pods, the horned section of string.. money,
death, god, and
psychoanalysis, music, or poetry, Art, already like dancing like demons in a
stew trading
names, registers, meanings, like the water changes limbs, like the limbs
changing the waters,
sacred, irrational shadows falling across the face of some specific
absolutes..
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