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Abstract
Placed in the perspective of Marxian commodity analysis, the consequences for psychoanalysis of the economic situation of psychoanalysts are examined. Seen in this perspective, its suspension of the question of truth, its tolerance of contradictory concepts, its lack of conceptual criticism and its abandonment of socio-critical issues turn out to be a consequence of the primary interest of psychoanalysts in the realization of the exchange-value of psychoanalytic treatment and the accompanying indifference to its use-value.