[psychoanalytic convertibility]
We are interested in how psychoanalytic collectives have responded to the challenges and paradoxes of money, how they have set up alternative points of accumulation, principles of circulation and modes of redistribution. In a sense, the psychoanalysts of the free clinics invented new currencies, they made psychoanalytic money. They created vouchers, sliding scales for patients allowing for zero payments, quotas for free or low-cost sessions shared by all psychoanalysts, rules of conversion making possible for psychoanalytic trainees to pay for their education by contributing to the free clinics, and complex micro-redistribution systems.
What is most interesting here is the interrelation between political economy and libidinal economy.
