ABSTRACT
In his exploration of the lives and choices of the famously rich, Wiseman (1974) recognises “a greed of a peculiarly elemental kind”, that is, “the greed for more than the subject needs or the object can give” (p. 46). This is very much in the spirit of Klein’s (1935) understanding of greed, fundamentally linked to primitive aggression, originating in the oral stage of development, where the infant pursues “a hungry, destructive introjection of the frustrating breast” (Akhtar, 2009, p. 70).
