Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.

Mankind today is still making history without having any conscious idea of what it really wants or under what conditions it would stop being unhappy; in fact what it is doing seems to be making itself more unhappy and calling that unhappiness progress.

Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.

The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.

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

I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.

Utopian speculations ... must come back into fashion. They are a way of affirming faith in the possibility of solving problems that seem at the moment insoluble. Today even the survival of humanity is a utopian hope.