Ugo Pascolo 3:51 p.m., June 21, 2022
In "Bienfait pour vous", the psychologist and psychoanalyst Joseph Agostini returns to the famous adage: "Money does not bring happiness, but it contributes to it".
For the specialist in the human psyche, pecuniary largesse can indeed make a person happy, but under conditions.
It is certainly one of the best known adages in the French language: "Money does not bring happiness, but it contributes to it".
The fact remains that at a time when galloping inflation is causing prices to soar, both in food and energy, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine has raised the two-euro bar for fuels, the question remains unanswered.
Does money then bring happiness?
The answer is more complex than it seems, advance in
Bienfait pour vous
on Europe 1 the psychologist and psychoanalyst, Joseph Agostini.
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"I think money can bring happiness, but it can also bring us unhappiness. That is to say, we can deepen our unhappiness in a way by not knowing how to live our relationship with money. "
For the specialist in the human psyche, "money, and that goes hand in hand with sexuality, is a basic pleasure: we like to spend, to look good, also to show others that we have...".
For Joseph Agostini, "appearance is desire", and this refers to money.
Thus, opulence "is one of those things that we want to show to others, but which can malfunction, and make us very unhappy if we do not know how to dose them well".
Money can therefore, like two sides of the same coin, contribute to happiness, but also lead to its loss.
Finally, in terms of pecuniary generosity and happiness, one thing is certain according to Boris Vian, "money does not bring happiness to those who do not have it".