ABSTRACT
This chapter attempts to encompass what considerations of class can throw up for psychoanalysis as a theoretical discipline and as a clinical practice, as well as how psychoanalysis can contribute to understanding the psychic embodiments of class. This involves addressing the lack of common concepts or a language in which matters of both class and psychoanalysis can be thought together, and shared across different discourses. The chapter delineates patchworks of linked themes which themselves raise further issues. It outlines some implications of these themes, starting with economic and institutional matters, through considerations of psychoanalytic culture and values, to questions of clinical work and practice, and finally theory. Money, and the access it brings to psychoanalysis and its trainings, is a crucial reality that structures the psychoanalytic field. Many class-inclusive efforts have raised questions of whether psychoanalytic technique needs to be altered in different circumstances.
