Re: econ. and cognitive psychology

[dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx (Doug Henwood)]

This is Freudian, not cognitive, but it's got some good stuff (and I'm not
repeating something someone else already said):

Borneman, Ernest, ed. (1976). The Psychoanalysis of Money (New York: Urizen
Books).

It relies heavily on the money=gold=shit thing ("gold is odorless
dehydrated filth that has been made to shine," said the loony Ferenczi, who
also had theories about the chemicals in rotting fish). I think this
ignores the degree to which the modern credit economy has much more to do
with the narcissistic sense of entitlement, the hunger for immediate
gratification, the satisfaction in consumption rather than retention,
lability rather than permanence, oral rather than anal, and maybe even
female rather than male (the credit system's images of liquidity and
mutability)...?

HE, as it's been proven experimentally, is not like real human beings,
though of course studying economics makes you more HE-like.

Doug

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