O Sujeito e as drogas: uma clínica para além da descrição sintomatológica

• Autor(a) principal: Ferreira, Isaias Gonçalves
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/18831
• topic: Psicanálise; Toxicomania; Sintoma; Psychoanalysis; Substance abuse; Symptom; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA::PSICOLOGIA SOCIAL

Currently, the approach which is called addiction, widely based on diagnostic manuals (DSM and CID), in the field of mental health, a reductionist diagnostic rationality: the Disorders related to substance use. This scenario of research generated a double foreclosure which has consequences in clinical practice. First, a foreclosure of body’s enjoyment: this remark reflects the diagnosis made by Lacan (1966/2001), in the understanding that the modern advances progressively from the scope of the body for a anatomopathological clinical study, which reflects a concept of it built around a machine model, constituting, so to say, an epysthemosomatical failure. However, according to Lacanian psychoanalysis, the body does not reduce itself to biologic, since in its ethics particularity refers to overflowing of enjoyment. Second, a foreclosure of the phármakon effect inherent to the drug. Thus, science has emptied the knowledge about the history and cultural weight of drugs. In this context, both the drug and the substance abuse arise as consequences of the science speech in copulation with the capitalist speech, which is supported by the neurobiological psychiatry. Can we ask, then, what novelties can psychoanalysis provide for the treatment of substance abuse? Would it be the double consideration that, on the one hand, there is a possible treatment for substance abuse through the singular clinic, and, on the other hand, that the subject can’t be reduced to a mere object of study? In that sense, the characterization of substance abuse as new form of naming the symptom that implying a particular plus-de-jouir in the age of science, which presents itself as one of the main and most profitable contributions of the Lacanian psychoanalysis to clinical study, extending beyond a symptomatological description