ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors describe the collection of all the commercial services, aimed at protecting against future misadventures and refer to the insurance industry. Starting from this moment, underwriters begin to play a big role in the insurance industry: they are the ones who calculate risk and decide what the premiums will be. In that triangle that psychoanalysts' relationship with the insurance industry by nature involves, the future is always a persecutory one. Whilst the illusion may be that taking out insurance enables psychoanalysts to be more tranquil about the present, the very act of taking out insurance kills the present moment, because it reduces it to a set of finite possibilities. In psychodynamic terms, the desire for insurance can also be seen as a phantasy for control; that of an omnipotent ego over the reality that surrounds it. Leadership, for the results of which there can be no insurance, then becomes increasingly difficult to exercise.
