Psychoanalysis, Anti-Semitism and the Miser

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Abstract In some recent writing that draws on Lacanian ideas about the structure of psychoanalysL·, Shvoj Zizek opposes the common cultural visum of the analyst as confessor or priest. In this view, psychoanalysL· L· born out of the capitatist spirit of 'thrift', of hoarding and spending only with reluctance. Instead of the religious imagery of confession and forgiveness, or indeed a fantasy that psychoanalysL· might represent a 'cure by love', Zizek alights on an anti-semitic trope that starkly pronounces on psychoanalysL· as a mode of economic exchange. Miserliness L· the core ofthL· trope. Zizek writes (in The Parallax View), 'The link between psychoanalysL· and capitatism L· perhaps …