Loaded Subjects

David Bennett is Principal Research Fellow in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne and Visiting Fellow in the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex. His books include Multicultural States: Rethinking Difference and Identity (1998 and 2002); and the forthcoming The Currency of Desire: Essays in Libidinal Economy, Psychoanalysis and Sexual Revolution (2013).

Part I. Psychoanalysis and Financial crisis 1. David Bennett Homo Oeconomicus vs Homo Psychologicus: A Critique of Pure Reason in Economics and Psychoanalysis 2. Karl Figlio The Financial Crisis: A Psychoanalytic View of Illusion, Greed and Reparation in Masculine Phantasy 3. Bruce Fink Analysand and Analyst in the Global Economy, or Why Anyone in their Right Mind Would Pay for an Analysis 4. Manya Steinkoler Customer Satisfaction Guaranteed: A Lacanian Reading of the Bernie Madoff Scandal 5. Claire Colebrook Beyond (Good) Investment and (Evil) Speculation 6. Paul Crosthwaite What a Waste of Money: Expenditure, the Death Drive, and the Contemporary Art Market Part II Psychoanalysis, Money and the Economy 7. Campbell Jones What Kind of Subject is the Market? 8. Viktor Mazin The Meaning of Money: Russia, the Ruble, the Dollar and Psychoanalysis 9. Tan Waelchli Psychoanalytic Reflections on the Nature of Money: Authority, Regulation of Standards, and the Law of the Father 10. Jean-Joseph Goux Pleasure and Pain: At the Crossroad of Psychoanalysis and Political Economy 11. Geoff Boucher Financial Crisis, Social Pathologies and 'Generalised and Matt Sharpe Perversion': Questioning A iA ek's Diagnosis of the Times 12. Stephen Frosh Psychoanalysis, Antisemitism and the Miser 13. Bernard Stiegler Pharmacology of Desire: Drive-Based Capitalism and Libidinal Dis-economy