Money and the meaning of life: The fantasy of instant wealth

Amy E. Wendling

doi:10.1515/humaff-2019-0042

Money and the meaning of life: The fantasy of instant wealth

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	470-478
Number of pages	9
Journal	Human Affairs
Volume	29
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1515/humaff-2019-0042
State	Published - Oct 1 2019
Externally published	Yes

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Sociology and Political Science
Philosophy
Law

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