Il capitalista e l'uomo dei topi. Marx, Freud e il significato del denaro

Marx and Freud each view money as embodying concealed social meanings. For Marx it signifies the alienation of labor and the brutal exploitation of workers in the process of producing surplus value. For Freud it reduces to the symbolic equation "money = feces = penis" and thus signifies sadomasochistic relationships. In both instances the analysis of money reveals failures of mutual recognition. These failures of recognition, and likewise the meaning of money, originate in the interplay between capitalist social relationships and the psychodynamics of the paranoid-schizoid position.