Introduction: ’A case of metaphysics’: realizing capital -- Fictitious capital/real psyche: metalepsis, psychologism, and the grounds of finance -- Investor ironies in Great Expectations -- The economic problem of sympathy: parabasis and interest in Middlemarch -- ’Money expects money’: satiric credit in The way we live now -- London, nineteenth century, capital of realism: on Marx’s Victorian novel -- Psychic economy and its vicissitudes: Freud’s economic hypothesis -- Epilogue: The psychic life of finance.