This study started with the question: How the meaning and use of money in the novel are related to the exchange value, money account and symptom / jouissance? The exhibition was limited to three literary pieces: Chapinero (2015), Boca de Lobo (2009) and Falling Man (2012). The criterion of selection of the works was due to the presence of sign elements, which recreated meanings and uses of money in the three-sided sense of Peirce, consistent with the categories of analysis. The core that unites the works was the notion: surplus-jouissance. The methodology used was the grounded theory, that is, it contemplates the description of facts or phenomena from a descriptive exercise of emergent data, sustenance of the theoretical formulation of this thesis. In contrasting the hypothesis, it was found that the meaning and use of money in the novels examined were based on a link between political economy and jouissance, where the emergent categories, accounted for the triumph of subjectivities in capitalism and the imperative of perversity established in social ties.