The Truth of Capitalism
Channel: Dr Luis de Miranda
Date: 01/05/2019

by Luis de Miranda https://luisdemiranda.com

“Here is a lively, intelligent book, by an author who is in no way a yes-man. With Lacan, he demonstrates that capitalism is a machine for massive enjoyment. What is obtained is not, however, complete enjoyment, but only little touches. Enjoyment will always remain the barrel of the Danaids. » Hervé Castanet, university professor, psychoanalyst, member of the Freudian Cause school. 

Everywhere, quality of life takes the form of a quantity of desires. The new world oscillates between two sides of the same play: on stage, obscene acting-outs; behind the scenes, a guilty puritanism. Can we behave other than like deranged pleasure machines, whose alternating current oscillates between greed and retention, waste and debt?

Many wonder why, once the imaginary or symbolic conditions of enjoyment are met, an empty or perverted reality takes hold. This is because the very mechanics of the capitalist libidinal economy is based on the constantly rejected anguish of a misguided desire. In a world globally structured by surplus value, enjoyment takes the international form of “surplus enjoyment”. Should we give up the joy of living and take refuge in moralism and austerity? Lacan, Heidegger and Marx, articulated together, allow us to say how a form of creative existence and philosophical health is still possible. Such compossible freedom is the horizon of this book.

As a philosophical counsellor, Dr Luis de Miranda conducts individual online conversations with individuals from all over the world to help them make sense of their life, to help them feel a greater sense of the possible and of reality as an intercreative whole. He offers many discovery sessions free of charge to people from all continents who otherwise could not afford financially a form of therapy or dialogue that respects their dignity and thirst for meaning.

Philosophical health is not about finding what is wrong with a person in terms of diagnosis, norms or brain chemistry. It's about helping the person recover the mindful enthusiasm, holistic understanding and proactive serenity of being a whole human being, with a sense of purpose and the capacity to stand for what they believe is right and fair.

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