The Subject of Addiction: Psychoanalysis and the Administration of Enjoyment

ISBN-13: 9781855752993 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 314 str.

Rik Loose

Opis

With addiction on the increase, and drugs and drug use an integral part of human culture, a radically different approach is needed to help us expand upon the knowledge already accumulated in the sciences

Spis treści

Foreword -- Preface -- Classical Foundations for a Theory on Addiction: The Energetics of Libido and the Economics of Desire -- Introduction -- The place of cocaine in the work of Freud -- Freud's pre-analytical period -- A limit to Freud's dream -- Freud’s war during the “inter-bellum”: the death-drive and the extermination of happiness -- Conclusion -- The Post-Freudian Reduction of a Field and the Fruits of a Confrontation -- Introduction -- Between drive and ego: the ascent of the subject -- Elements for a Lacanian Theory (and Treatment) of Addiction: The Administration of Toxicity -- Introduction -- The pleasure before death: the symbolic, the imaginary and jouissance -- The death of pleasure: the real, the body and jouissance -- Science, addiction and diagnosis: a question of administration -- Addiction and discourse: a moral question and the ethics of treatment -- Conclusion

O autorze

Loose, Rik