De um luxo ao lixo: uma perspectiva psicanalítica da toxicomania na contemporaneidade

Abstract

This research discusses the relation of drug addiction in the contemporary world and the discourse of capitalism and science according to psychoanalysis. The hypothesis that guides this work is that the current phenomenon of drug addiction corresponds to a social symptom inherent in the conjugation of these discourses. Such discourses, aligned, accelerate and stimulate the production of luxury and the concomitant garbage in an unprecedented proportion in history, instigating the "com-pulsion" and the phenomena of addictions. Drug addiction is a nosography that does not belong to the discourse of Freudian psychoanalysis, and both Freud and Lacan treated the use of drugs through the ethical dimension. What moves capitalism is consumption, and allied to science it promises happiness and healing for all evils, promoting the idea that fullness by the consumption of manufactured objects by industry is possible. The drug is as old as society, but it was in capitalism that it assumed the category of a commodity. Based on the ideal of purity and hygiene, society segregates what is not in conformity with the norm, the scum. And the "drug addict," or "crackhead," with his "obscene" jouissance, becomes the fetish of ideological mystifications.