Human economics is a fantastic system, a system that is rational and irrational at once. Money is not only a medium of exchange, it is also a symbol which the players respond to as if it were mother, or father, or child, or penis, or feces. Money is a sacred symbol; by magical and irrational means it intrudes into the rational. Money is the means by which the holder can re-create mother's womb, an artificial and temporary womb; separation not accepted.

I cannot fully enter the real and rational world as long as I cling to this fantasy that I am the child and husband of my mother. Drama is the intrusion of the unconscious into consciousness; all drama is family drama. To be fully real and rational, I must somehow forget who I fantasize I am.

It is desire for pleasure that drives the unconscious process and this desire is the source of fantasy. To be rid of the fantasy is to be rid of the desire for pleasure; to experience my penis as a plug and your vagina as a socket. I cannot find this desire to be rid of the desire for pleasure. The absence of pleasure is the absence of imagination.