Lacan and Addiction

257 Pages·2011·0.6 MB·English

LACAN AND ADDICTION

LACAN AND ADDICTION
An Anthology
Edited by
Yael Goldman Baldwin,
Kareen Malone, and Thomas Svolos
First published in 2011 by
Karnac Books Ltd
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London NW3 5HT
Copyright © 2011 by Yael Goldman Baldwin, Kareen Malone, and Thomas Svolos
for the edited collection, and to the individual authors for their contributions.
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To my family,
Yael Goldman Baldwin
To my sister and brothers,
Kareen Malone
CA, YAMFP,
Thomas Svolos

CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xi
ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS xiii
INTRODUCTION
Viewing addictions through Lacanian lenses xvii
Kareen Malone and Yael Goldman Baldwin
CHAPTER ONE
Modern symptoms and their effects as forms of administration:
a challenge to the concept of dual diagnosis and to treatment 1
Rik Loose
CHAPTER TWO
New uses of drugs 39
Fabián Naparstek
CHAPTER THREE
Knows no’s nose 59
Rolf Flor
vii
viii CONTENTS
CHAPTER FOUR
Brief comments on Rolf Flor’s case presentation 73
Bruce Fink
CHAPTER FIVE
Introducing the “New Symptoms” 75
Thomas Svolos
CHAPTER SIX
Comments on “Introducing the ‘New Symptoms’” 89
Fabián Naparstek
CHAPTER SEVEN
Bulimia: between phobia and addiction 93
Patricia Gherovici
CHAPTER EIGHT
Two people in a room: ethnographers, unruly subjects,
and the pleasures of addiction 111
Alexine Fleck
CHAPTER NINE
“Toxicomanic” passion for an object: the sexual relation exists 119
Gustavo Klurfan
CHAPTER TEN
The colour of emptiness: addiction and the drive 131
Cristina Laurita
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Leverage of the letter in the emergence of desire:
a case of addiction 145
Shannon Kelly and Kareen Malone
CHAPTER TWELVE
Lost objects: repetition in Kierkegaard, Lacan, and the clinic 163
Michael Miller
CONTENTS ix
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Bulimia, anxiety, and the demand of the Other 177
Maria-Cristina Aguirre
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Response: Bulimia, anxiety, and the demand of the Other 187
Maria J. Lopez
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
Addictions, sexual identity, and our times 189
Liliana Kruszel
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
Speech, language, and savoir in the Lacanian clinic of addiction 195
Christopher Meyer
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
Response to Christopher Meyer 207
Kareen Malone
AFTERWORD
The contribution of addictions to the ethics of psychoanalysis 211
Thomas Svolos
INDEX 214