Study of Jacques Lacan’s Clinical Structure for Drug Addicts

Abstract

If the subject in Lacan should have a position – clinical structure – facing

the lack of desire and other’s jouissance, it is through addiction that the

paternal metaphor can be foreclosed and the subject becomes the body in the

mirror schema ( – o) and hence the addicted subject manages jouissance in

its relation (which is an attempt to avoid) with the other through: the substitution

mechanism where the drug takes the place of the agent (the mediator)

which bars the subject’s representation of another signifier by absorbing the

master signifier (a – s1) in an attempt to place the drug and the ego-ideal in

the same place. The omnipotent sense resulting from the toximea also hides

the impossibility relation (or lack of desire) leaving the subject in the illusion

of the possibility of achieving full harmony between this agent and the other,

on the one hand, and the mechanism of independence of the big Other which

refers to the break of the social bond and the separation of the subject which

leads to the rejection of the subject as a result of the dependence on the law

of the mother which immerses the subject with toxics when nothing that is

related to the body is symbolized. This gives addiction its psychopathological

privacy. Hence where addiction is considered as a new symptom it is, in fact,

an alienation in the narcissistic dimension which is referred to by the break

with the symbolic