The Subject of Addiction

Psychoanalysis and The Administration of Enjoyment

By: Rik Loose

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Paperback | 31 December 2002

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Drugs and drug use are an integral part of human culture. Yet we know hardly anything about drugs, at least not the kind of knowledge that would help us to understand how drugs affect people and how people beome addicted to drugs. This is most surprising in the light of the vast amount of knowledge accumulated in the sciences. Psychoanalysis might not be an obvious choice for the treatment of addiction. Nevertheless, it is in an excellent position to make a contribution to a problem that has so far defied much of our understanding. By inviting people to speak about themselves, psychoanalysis has established a unique way of collecting clinical material, a material that surely must be immediately relevant coming as it does from the horse's mouth. With addiction on the increase, this fact alone justifies the necessity for a different approach.Providing a theoretical foundation for the argument that psychoanalysis should be seriously considered, and where possible incorporated into the treament of addicts, this thoughtful and innovative book can serve as an orientation in the ongoing front-line battle with addicts and addiction.Divided into three parts, the first part deals with Freud's writings on addicton including an in-depth examination of his so called 'cocaine papers', the second part examines how various strands of Freud's work on addiction were continued by his followers, while the last part formulates a Lacanian theory of addiction. This book is indispensible for anyone interested in addiction, the evolution of Freud's work, or contemporary psychoanalysis.

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Drugs and drug use are an integral part of human culture. Yet we know hardly anything about drugs, at least not the kind of knowledge that would help us to understand how drugs affect people and how people beome addicted to drugs. This is most surprising in the light of the vast amount of knowledge accumulated in the sciences. Psychoanalysis might not be an obvious choice for the treatment of addiction. Nevertheless, it is in an excellent position to make a contribution to a problem that has so far defied much of our understanding. By inviting people to speak about themselves, psychoanalysis has established a unique way of collecting clinical material, a material that surely must be immediately relevant coming as it does from the horse's mouth. With addiction on the increase, this fact alone justifies the necessity for a different approach. Providing a theoretical foundation for the argument that psychoanalysis should be seriously considered, and where possible incorporated into the treament of addicts, this thoughtful and innovative book can serve as an orientation in the ongoing front-line battle with addicts and addiction.Divided into three parts, the first part deals with Freud's writings on addicton including an in-depth examination of his so called 'cocaine papers', the second part examines how various strands of Freud's work on addiction were continued by his followers, while the last part formulates a Lacanian theory of addiction. This book is indispensible for anyone interested in Addiction, the evolution of Freud's work, or contemporary psychoanalysis.

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Non-Fiction Psychology Psychological Theory, Systems, Schools of Thought & Viewpoints Psychoanalytical Theory & Freudian Psychology Medicine Other Branches of Medicine Therapy & Therapeutics Addiction & Therapy Physiological & Neuro-Psychology, Biopsychology Society & Culture Social Issues & Processes Social Aspects of Illness & Addictions

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Acknowledgements
Foreword
Preface
Classical Foundations for a Theory on Addiction: The Energetics of Libido and the Economics of Desire
The place of cocaine in the work of Freud	p. 7
Freud's pre-analytical period	p. 23
A limit to Freud's dream	p. 35
Freud's war during the "inter-bellum": the death-drive and the extermination of happiness	p. 61
Conclusion	p. 85
The Post-Freudian Reduction of a Field and the Fruits of a Confrontation
Between drive and ego: the ascent of the subject	p. 99
Elements for a Lacanian Theory (and Treatment) of Addiction - The Administration of Toxicity
The pleasure before death: the symbolic, the imaginary and jouissance	p. 137
The death of pleasure: the real, the body and jouissance	p. 167
Science, addiction and diagnosis: a question of administration	p. 195
Addiction and discourse: a moral question and the ethics of treatment	p. 235
Conclusion	p. 271
References	p. 285
Index	p. 297
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