[lbo-talk] Capitalism & Psychoanalysis

[Carl Remick]

>From: Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu>
>
>Joanna wrote:
>
>>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.

Exactly.  As I've said many times, a system that -- by its own frequent 
admisssion -- is driven solely by fear and greed is guaranteed to potentiate 
anyone's neuroses and bring out the worst in everyone.  Piddling around with 
individual approaches -- i.e., sessions on the analyst's couch -- to this 
collective problem is ultimately a waste of time.  This country doesn't need 
better psychiatric benefits as much as it needs socialism.

Carl

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