Abstract
This article aims to discuss some of the problems we can encounter in addressing drug issues, especially in Brazil. It also shows, through the work of some authors, that psychoanalysts must go beyond the frontiers of psychoanalysis itself—overcoming elaborations that individualize the problem through concepts such as personality or structure—to enable a new understanding that can guarantee different strategies of intervention. At the end, it points out questions opened from the indicated problems, which are referring to the discourse of capitalism in the present time.
Highlights
This article aims to discuss some of the problems we can encounter in addressing drug issues, especially in Brazil
Through the work of some authors, that psychoanalysts must go beyond the frontiers of psychoanalysis itself—overcoming elaborations that individualize the problem through concepts such as personality or structure—to enable a new understanding that can guarantee different strategies of intervention
It points out questions opened from the indicated problems, which are referring to the discourse of capitalism in the present time
Summary
The contemporary reality, especially the Brazilian one (Lemos, 2012), where the distance between the official public policy and the culture that guides the common citizen and the actions of some governmental sectors—such as the military police—is abysmal, has placed new challenges regarded to how certain issues have been addressed: generally we are conformed with simplistic positions—because they are reductionist, hierarchical and stigmatizing, besides standardized and moralist. 2) The second consequence of that configuration is that by transforming others—such alcohol/drugs consumers and dealers into “aliens”—in a patient or a delinquent, we “exclude them inward” to the interior of our institutions through social devices: medical, psychological, legal and criminal With this operation we mean, among other things, that the label and stigma operate to appease our anxiety and tranquilize us: they are the abnormals and are being treated, they are the criminals and are being punished!. It turns out that the logic of the drug is the logic of consumption: which means that all soda, automobile, all jeans dream of being a drug, they dream of being consumed without limits as cocaine which, incidentally, has an advantage as it saves on marketing, it is free from the fashion movements, etc It is the same logic of “the more, the better” which is present in our daily lives! It is not noticeable that a pragmatic-technical culture like ours, that is, a culture governed by quick and de-subjectivized solutions; whose motto could be “take the pill and the pain will disappear”; when pathologizing the “individual consumer” is no more than becoming accomplices of the logic that rules nowadays’ culture?4
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