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Money as Emotional Currency: Psychoanalytic Ideas

Money as Emotional Currency: Psychoanalytic Ideas International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies Int. J. Appl. Psychoanal. Studies 13(1): 89–94 (2016) Published online 21 February 2016 in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com) DOI: 10.1002/aps.1481 Book Reviews and Commentary MONEY AS EMOTIONAL CURRENCY: PSYCHOANALYTIC IDEAS Edited by Anca Carrington London: Karnac Books, 2015, 141 pp. More than a hundred years ago, Freud (1908) listed parsimony among the major traits of obsessional personality and traced its origin to the pleasure felt by the anal phase child in retaining feces. Invoking illustrations from mythology, fairy tales, language, and dreams, Freud declared that money and feces were equated in the unconscious. This proposal was supported by his early pupils (Ferenczi, 1914/1916; Jones, 1918/1950; Fenichel, 1938) and the feces–money equation became an established psychoanalytic dictum. However, as psychoanalytic the- ory shifted from its instinctual foundations to object relational and self-psycho- logical approaches, additional views regarding money began to appear. According to Klein (1975a, 1975b), greed originated in oral frustration and sought to angrily devour the withholding breast. Money came to symbolize this elusive source of security later in life. Children’s fears of poverty betrayed the expectation of punishment for hostile, hungry phantasies towards the mother and the adult melancholic’s dread of becoming http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies Wiley

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International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies Int. J. Appl. Psychoanal. Studies 13(1): 89–94 (2016) Published online 21 February 2016 in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com) DOI: 10.1002/aps.1481 Book Reviews and Commentary MONEY AS EMOTIONAL CURRENCY: PSYCHOANALYTIC IDEAS Edited by Anca Carrington London: Karnac Books, 2015, 141 pp. More than a hundred years ago, Freud (1908) listed parsimony among the major traits of obsessional personality and traced its origin to the pleasure felt by the anal phase child in retaining feces. Invoking illustrations from mythology, fairy tales, language, and dreams, Freud declared that money and feces were equated in the unconscious. This proposal was supported by his early pupils (Ferenczi, 1914/1916; Jones, 1918/1950; Fenichel, 1938) and the feces–money equation became an established psychoanalytic dictum. However, as psychoanalytic the- ory shifted from its instinctual foundations to object relational and self-psycho- logical approaches, additional views regarding money began to appear. According to Klein (1975a, 1975b), greed originated in oral frustration and sought to angrily devour the withholding breast. Money came to symbolize this elusive source of security later in life. Children’s fears of poverty betrayed the expectation of punishment for hostile, hungry phantasies towards the mother and the adult melancholic’s dread of becoming

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