>psychoanalysis is more about making people conscious of the
>multitutde of ways they avoid being in the present. Most of these
>strategies, of course, have to do with relating to the present as
>if it were nothing other than a symbolic sediment of the past.
"Making people conscious of the multitude of ways they avoid being in the present" probably is a decent summary of psychoanalysis, but, then, psychoanalysis misses the most potent source of anxiety under capitalism: future. Even in its simplest form, capitalism sacrifices the present for the future: capitalists make investments to make profits -- not now but later. Since capitalism has developed to a more complex stage, expectations and obligations that mature in the future have come to poison the minds of not just the bourgeoisie but also the proletariat: mortgages, installment plans, credit cards, car payments, student loans, etc. -- Yoshie
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