The Subject of Addiction: Psychoanalysis and the Administration of Enjoyment

327 Pages·2002·51.82 MB·English

by  Rik Loose

THE SUBJECT
OF ADDICTION
PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE
ADMINISTRATION OF ENJOYMENT

THE SUBJECT
OF ADDICTION
PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE
ADMINISTRATION OF ENJOYMENT
by
Rik Loose
KARNAC
First published in 2002 by
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I would like to specifically thank Paul Verhaeghe for his support,
encouragement and outstanding capacity to inspire. I want to
express my gratitude to Julien Quackelbeen for installing a true
passion for psychoanalysis in me. I want to thank Oliver Rathbone
from Karnac Books for helping to realise this project and stimulating
me till the very end. I would like to thank Cormac Gallagher and
Jean Kilcullen for having given me the opportunity to work in
academia (and more than that).
I would like to express my gratitude to the many colleagues I met,
and friends I made, through the Department of Psychoanalysis of the
University of Gent, namely, Lieven Jonckheere, Katrien Libbrecht,
Dany Nobus, Els Vandenbussche, Filip Geerardijn, Hubert van
Hoorde, Karin Temmerman, Pat Jacobs, Tom De Belie, Francine
Danniau, Frederic Declerck, Iris De Groot, Annick De Coninck, Roel
De Cuyper, Luc Vander Vennet, Erik Broekaert and many others.
I want to thank Henk Oils for his genuine interest and
enthusiasm, Gerry Sullivan for all his help, (his contribution for
this book cannot be over-estimated), Geert Bisschop for his fort-da
behaviour and art work and Helen and Garrett Sheehan for being
there when most necessary.
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Further I want to thank all those friends and colleagues in
Ireland and England who have meant a lot to me in various ways
both personally and in terms of my work, namely, David (you'll
never do it) Slattery, Maeve Nolan, Patricia McCarthy, Barry
O'Donnell, Helena Texier, Bernard Burgoyne, Alan Rowan, Leena
Hiikkinen, Kirsty Hall, Andrew (many problems) Honeyman,
Siobain O'Donnell, Susan Cassidy, Marie Fogarty, Martin Daly,
Aisling Campbell, Mark Maguire, Brian Hughes, Olga Cox, Patricia
Stewart, Rob Weatherill, Stephen Costello, Aurelie Olivier, Terry
Ball, Marek McGann and all (the other) staff members at DBS School
of Arts. Last but not least I want to thank the psychoanalysis and
MA in Addiction Studies students (past and present) at DBS School
of Arts (LSB College) for their interest and critical approach.
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEOGEMENTS vii
FOREWORD by Professor Paul Verhaeghe xi
PREFACE xv
PART l:
CLASSICAL FOUNDATIONS FOR A THEORY ON
ADDICTION: THE ENERGETICS OF LmIOO AND
THE ECONOMICS OF DESIRE
Introduction 3
CHAPTER ONE
The place of cocaine in the work of Freud 7
CHAPTER TWO
Freud's pre-analytical period 23
CHAPTER THREE
A limit to Freud's dream 35
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