The Subject of Addiction

Psychoanalysis and The Administration of Enjoyment

Rik Loose (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

314 Seiten

2019
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-32890-0 (ISBN)

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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.

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

Loose, Rik

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

Erscheinungsdatum	07.08.2019
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	600 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Biopsychologie / Neurowissenschaften
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sucht / Drogen
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Suchtkrankheiten
ISBN-10	0-367-32890-9 / 0367328909
ISBN-13	978-0-367-32890-0 / 9780367328900
Zustand	Neuware