Money, love, and hate contradiction and paradox in psychoanalysis

When Genders Collide

“…As Paul concentrated on his career, took responsibility for it, and actually began making money, we congratulated ourselves on his progress. I didn't recognize at the time that the money issue alone was a potential trigger for anger (see Dimen, 1994). Now, Paul and I were in a new space.…”

Keep On Keepin' On—Alienation and Trauma Commentary on Ruth Fallenbaum's Paper

“…Consider the empowerments we enjoy, like control over our time. Yet, as I (Dimen, 1994) pointed out in my discussion of money and countertransference, even that appearance of autonomy is compromised by the constant need to increase one's income, whether to support one's family or, like Janis Joplin, to make amends with a Mercedes Benz, a need that saps one's sense of belonging to oneself. Only with great reluctance do we recall that, finally, we are all in the same boat.…”

Power and Shame: Reply to Mark Blechner and to Ruth Stein

“…It can, I propose, be used for the problem of psychoanalysis and paradox. Although you can discuss the clinical and the political separately-they are not the same, psychoanalysis being of this earthly plane-you cannot imagine them separately, just as you cannot imagine power structures without the emotions they run on (Reich, 1942; see also Dimen, 1994).…”