Money and the meaning of life: The fantasy of instant wealth
| Autor: | Amy E. Wendling |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Sociology and Political Science
media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 050105 experimental psychology 03 medical and health sciences Philosophy 0302 clinical medicine Aesthetics 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Sociology Fantasy Law Meaning of life 030217 neurology & neurosurgery media_common Instant |
| Zdroj: | Human Affairs. 29:470-478 |
| ISSN: | 1337-401X 1210-3055 |
| DOI: | 10.1515/humaff-2019-0042 |
| Popis: | Is the meaning of life to get rich quick? That would certainly explain the way many people have lived under the spell of a constitutive fantasy: the fantasy of instant wealth. Drawing on Lacan’s Discourse of the Capitalist, the article explores the fantasy of instant wealth and its relationship to addiction, especially addiction to shopping. The article concludes with a meditation on how the fantasy of instant wealth supplants and in some ways contradicts another fantasy: the fantasy of labour. |
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