Avarice has been considered one of the main sins since time immemorial. At the same time, it has always possessed something dangerously close to the very nature of human desire, an inner capacity for its perversion. Should one preserve and accumulate for oneself alone or share with others? This choice lies at the foundation of any society.

The author offers a psychoanalytic perspective on the issue, exploring the cultural history of the miser's image and analyzing the development of avarice against the backdrop of the rise and flourishing of capitalism.

Mladen Dolar (b. 1951) is a Slovenian philosopher and professor at the University of Ljubljana. Alongside Slavoj Žižek, Alenka Zupančič, and Rastko Močnik, he is one of the founders of the Ljubljana Lacanian School. His main areas of research include psychoanalysis, contemporary French philosophy, German idealism, and art theory. He is the author of fourteen books and over one hundred fifty articles.

The book "A Voice and Nothing More" (2006) has been translated into ten languages, including Russian. The book "On Avarice and Related Matters" was supplemented by the author in anticipation of its translation into Russian and thus differs from the original 2002 edition.

Translated from Slovenian by Aleksandra Krasovec.

This edition was made possible with financial support from the Slovenian Book Agency.

"Mladen Dolar is one of the most brilliant thinkers of the renowned Ljubljana School of Psychoanalysis. (...) He poses the most fundamental, precise, and pointed questions." — Viktor Mazin, psychoanalyst