Although money is not an infant wish (Freud), it is still the objective of most of our strivings. After all, as Goethe put it: “This metal can be transformed into anything.” With capitalism at the apogee of its evolution, the opportunities and the prestige of individual members of society will be measured largely in terms of the financial clout that they command. So far, psychoanalytic theory has given relatively little attention to the phenomenon of money and the way we handle it. This