Pharmacology of desire: drive-based capitalism and libidinal dis-economy (e-j…

The concept of desire is the key to understanding the relation between economics and psychoanalysis, that is, between social and psychic investment, or between productive and libidinal economies. Today, the system organising the relation between these two economies is less a matter of biopower than of 'psychopower', technologies and industries developed in order to control the behaviour of cons…