ABSTRACT
A currency mediating the monetary exchanges to take place conveniently could be said, thus, to make society possible and allow advance from tribal communities to a nation state. When money is the currency of economic exchange, the author might expect that the resulting three-person situation expands the spectrum of emotional possibilities. One possible explanation is that childhood phantasies are the precursor of later relationship patterns and that, while their shape is generic in the early years, the link with money only becomes established and fashioned by them once dealing with actual currency in the external reality. Another explanation might be that much of the child analysis literature focuses on early pathology, and the struggles children have with relating to their internal and external objects, of which money does not become explicitly one until later in life. Money has the potential to stir strong feelings because; it is the currency of transaction between people, in both the emotional and financial sense.
