Money – paying the analyst – is necessary in order to keep him/her out of circulation, to avoid getting him/her involved in the imbroglio of passions which generated the patient’s pathology. This is why a psychoanalyst is not a Master-figure, but rather, a kind of “prostitute of the mind,” having recourse to money for the same reason some prostitutes like to be paid so that they can have sex without personal involvement, maintaining their distance – here, we encounter the function of money at its purest.

Happiness and Torture. S. Zizek.

Salt Lake City local poets coming.