Pleasure and pain: at the crossroads of psychoanalysis and the political econ…

At the very moment when Freud, still a student, initiated his first works, three economists from different countries--the Englishman Stanley Jevons, the Frenchman Leon Walras and the Austrian Carl Menger--revolutionised economic thought, breaking with the 'objectivism' of the classical economists (Smith, Ricardo, Marx) and introducing 'a psychological, individual and subjective explanation' of …