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Mental
Print version ISSN 1679-4427On-line version ISSN 1984-980X
Abstract
LEMOS, Inez. The cynical joy of the drug addict.Translated byMarina Passos. Mental [online]. 2004, vol.2, n.3, pp. 51-60. ISSN 1679-4427.
The article argues the paper of science in the production of the drug addiction. It focuses the cynical joy of the drug addict, where the drug operates as one gadget. It identifies in the decline of the symbolic father the disruption of the drug addict with the phallic joy. And it indicates some differences between alcoholism and drug addiction.
Keywords : Drug addiction; Speech of science; Joy; Cynicism; Paternal function.