In psychoanalytic practice, money has a paradoxical place: the patient agrees to buy
something that no one can describe in advance. Payment is included in the symptom and its treatment, so matters related to the fee are bound to be complicated from the outset.
Discussions on money and psychoanalysis often lead to impasses, inhibitions, slips of the
tongue and other trepidations. ‘Can psychoanalysis be free?’ – the question returns, in
many iterations. The present dictionary of money and psychoanalysis captures some of the
difficulties around this question – and offers conceptual prompts for keeping the
conversation going. It organises a space for an interdisciplinary conversation, which includes psychoanalysts, anthropologists, historians, social theorists and artists. It references a wide variety of terms: from accelerationism to infrastructural thinking, from living currency to unpayable debt, from internalised scarcity to non-commodities. It does not claim to be complete or definitive. It is a pamphlet, meant to fit well in any pocket.
The contributing authors are: Ana Minozzo, Ana Tomcic, Barry Watt, Bruno Cava, Clarice
Pimentel Paulon, Daniel Feldmann, Deivison Faustino, Francisco J. González, Gabriel
Tupinambá, Giuseppe Cocco, Guilaine Kinouani, Ian Parker, Jordan Osserman, Julianna
Pusztai, Lizaveta van Munsteren, Raluca Soreanu & Tales Ab’Sáber.
