Money as Emotional Currency

Carrington, Anca

• Preface -- Introduction -- Emotional functions of money -- Freud’s papers on money -- Freud (1908a): Character and anal erotism -- Freud (1917): On transformations of instinct as exemplified in anal erotism -- Money and childhood phantasies -- 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 instability -- Love, money, and identity -- Borges (1949): The Zahir -- Money and desire: a Lacanian perspective -- Arnaud (2003): Money as signifier: A Lacanian insight into the monetary order *