The human experience of time and money is shrouded in fantasy; the impersonal is wearing the mask of personality. My own time and money are not impersonal abstractions; they are as vital as my body, or, my personality. The human experience is one of emotional motion, motion that produces pleasure and pain. A person feels what it is like to be a time machine. The mechanics are conceptual, the feelings are fantastic.

Money produces-distributes-consumes objects of human fantasy. The economic system of a society of people is the circulation system of their collective fantasy. Story, or narrative, is time personified, impersonal objects incorporated by personal fantasy. The people participate in the collective fantasy through the medium of money.

An analysis of the economic system of a given people, that is not simultaneously a psychoanalysis of the people's collective fantasy will fall short of understanding. Abstractions veil understanding of the fantastic situation. The human experience does not take place in the purely real world of purified conceptual thinking, but in a fantastic place, a place that is never wholly real.