Case by Case: Approaching the Subject of Drug Abuse in Times of Over-Consumption

The article argues that once nurtured by language, the human subject is removed from the condition of a natural existence where every instinct is matched to an external object; instead he is driven to pursue the lost object where satisfaction is rather a path than a fact Taking drug addiction as paradigmatic of modern illness, the author describes how the suffering and decay involving consumption pathologies are related tothe attempt to return to a natural state, non-dependent on language and desire, where objects of reality would be sufficient to silence the drive.…