Freedom Beyond Money - A Psychoanalytic Reflection
The hour when shadows lose their sharpness and turn into soft, bleeding stains upon the old parquet floor is the time when words begin to carry a different weight. I sit in the twilight of the room, which feels wider than it actually is—perhaps because there is too much space in it for the things that never happened—and in my mind echo the words someone tossed out today like an old, worn-out coin: "Money may be gone, but at least we are free." This phrase, often used as a shield against poverty or a bitter consolation for missed opportunities, suddenly struck me not as an excuse, but as a profound, almost mystical diagnosis of the human condition. As I watched the dust motes dancing in the final beam of light, I asked myself what this "lack" we call pennilessness actually means, and how it transforms into the "presence" we call freedom. From a psychoanalytic perspective , money is the most reliable object of our projection; it is the symbolic equivalent...