In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.

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Love without attachment is light.

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The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.

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