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Author Carrington, Anca

Title Money as Emotional Currency
Published Karnac Books, 2014

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Description 1 online resource
Series The Psychoanalytic Ideas Series
Psychoanalytic ideas.
Contents COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS; PREFACE; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE Emotional functions of money; CHAPTER TWO Freud's papers on money; Freud (1908a): Character and anal erotism; Freud (1917): On transformations of instinct as exemplified in anal erotism; CHAPTER THREE Money and childhood phantasies; CHAPTER FOUR Phantasy in the world economy; Overview and introduction by David Tuckett
Tuckett, D., & Taffler, R. (2008): Phantastic objects and the financial market's sense of reality: a psychoanalytic contribution to the understanding of stock market instabilityCHAPTER FIVE Love, money, and identity; Borges (1949): The Zahir; CHAPTER SIX Money and desire: a Lacanian perspective; Arnaud (2003): Money as signifier: A Lacanian insight into the monetary order; INDEX
Summary The importance of money and our relationship to it is impossible to ignore in a decade defined by global economic crisis and financial instability. Integrating a psychoanalytic perspective with insights offered by economics, this book contributes to a debate that aims for a better understanding of money in its dual functioning - as omnipresent component of our external reality, as well as powerful agent of our emotional responses. The main argument proposed is that the intense and complex emotional charge that money can engender stems from the role that money has not so much in the external world, but in an internal economy ruled by phantasy, where every external transaction has an internal counterpart, whose impact is mysterious, deep and far-reaching. The book explores the impact of the emotional undercurrent stirred by money from its beginnings in childhood to its consolidation into adult life, for individuals and society alike, and with an emphasis on ordinary development, rather than on pathology. Bringing together Freud's seminal work with more recent applications of psychoanalytic thinking to financial markets, with Borges' prose and Lacanian insights, this book crosses discipline and school boundaries with the aim of making new insights possible
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Subject Money -- Psychological aspects
Finance, Personal -- Psychological aspects
Wealth -- Psychological aspects
Identity (Psychology)
Identity (Philosophical concept)
identity.
Finance, Personal -- Psychological aspects
Identity (Philosophical concept)
Identity (Psychology)
Money -- Psychological aspects
Wealth -- Psychological aspects
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1322519587
9781322519586
9781782413448
1782413448
1782202005
9781782202004
9781781814765
1781814767