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PACHECO FILHO, Raul Albino. Drug addiction: a failed way to deal with the structural lack-to-be of the subject and with the contradictions of the society. Mental [online]. 2007, vol.5, n.9, pp.29-45. ISSN 1679-4427.

The present paper proposes a reflection in respect of the drug addiction, conceiving it as a failed way of the subject to deal with the structural aspects of the human to exist and the contradictions of the society. Born under the helplessness shield (Hilflosigkeit) and having its desire aliened in the Other's field, the drama of the subject, in the language, is the lack-to-be constituter of the structure in which he emerges. It proposes that the drug addicted tends to escape from the structural impossibility of nomination and conquest of the desire object, through the reduction of the enigma of the relation between desire and object to an intended jouissance of the real properties of the object-drug. Is debates how, in a society based on the goods fetishism, in which the legitimacy of the social relations is effected through the generalization of the rituals of eating up consumption objects, the drug addicted can be conceived as specie of an ideal model of capitalism consumer, in his practice lead by the jouissance imperative. Particularizing the analysis to the Brazilian society case, it proposes that the drug addiction receives an additional impulse from the exceeding of real and symbolic violence found in the specific conditions of the Brazilian capitalism. Entering the debate about the questions prohibition versus legalization and criminalization versus decriminalization, it presents what appears to take place from the ethical presuppositions of the Psychoanalysis, in respect of the implication of the subject with his act. Finally, it presents the analytical process as an alternative way of dealing with the lack of the subject and with the contradictions and violence of the society, in the installation of a device that proposes to the drug addicted an interrogation in respect of his consumption practice.

Palavras-chave : Psychoanalysis; Drug; Drug addiction; Capitalism; Brazilian society.

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