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Remarks On The Theory And Treatment Of (Pathological) Administration's of Enjoyment

Paul Verhaeghe

Issue 25 — Summer 2002

17–20

Addiction, like prostitution, is a phenomenon as old as the human race. Evidently they have something in common - their relationship to desire and enjoyment - and both pose a problem for the society in which they occur. It is not too difficult to find a reason for this. A society is a perfect example of an institution consisting of a collection of people held together by a number of commonly shared rules and conventions.…

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