The chemistry of solitude.

The addict's tragedy: choosing chemistry's reliable repetition over humanity's unreliable surprise, they discover their perfect partner is also their executioner.

The chemistry of solitude.

The analytic experience reveals a disturbing substitution: the addict doesn't merely prefer the drug over people, they fundamentally reorganize the economy of trust itself. Where the neurotic suffers the unreliability of human desire, the addict finds salvation in chemical consistency. The drug never disappoints because it never speaks: it delivers its effect with mechanical precision, asking nothing in return except the body's continued availability.

This transformation operates through a brutal logic: human relationships demand interpretation, negotiation, the anxiety of not knowing what the Other wants. The object-drug eliminates this unbearable uncertainty. It becomes the only Other who keeps promises, who arrives on schedule, who never asks uncomfortable questions. The addict hasn't abandoned society; they've simply found a more reliable partner in chemistry than in conversation.

Yet this apparent solution conceals a deeper impasse: the drug's reliability is also its tyranny. Unlike human others who can surprise, disappoint, or transform us, the chemical bond remains static, repetitive, mortifying. The addict trades the risk of human unpredictability for the certainty of pharmaceutical servitude, discovering too late that the most trustworthy Other is also the most deadly.

Psychotherapy

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