Waste and Money in Norman Brown

[Steven Koteff]

Found on p. 283 of my paperback of *Life Against Death*

Here he is talking about the development of the city and of money. The
now-repressed sacred (what he calls superfluous-sacred) origins of money.
The connection between money and anality.

"But the essence of sublimation is the reification of the
superfluous-sacred in monumental, enduring form. Hence it is in the city
that money finally settles upon the most durable precious metals. The city,
in Gordon Childe's theory, presupposes metallurgy; but the metallurgy it
presupposes is not metallurgy in the service of 'rational' 'mastery over
nature,' or even in the service of war, but metallurgy in the service of
conspicuous (and sacred) waste."
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