Anchored to the Instant

We freeze the instant with substances to avoid being rewritten, while time continues running and we remain behind, immobile and obsolete.

Anchored to the Instant

Addicted to the same moment, we suspend the tyranny of time that mercilessly inscribes its novelty upon us. Faced with the vertigo of existing as perpetually rewritten tablets, the substance promises an eternal present where nothing changes while everything remains exactly the same. The chemical refuge protects us from the fundamental terror: being a surface where becoming inscribes its relentless cruelty.

The addict constructs temporal paradoxes: the more immobile they remain in their jouissance, the more rapidly they disintegrate as subjects. Their body, transformed into a monument to a petrified instant, celebrates the absence of movement while deteriorating at devastating speeds. Physical destruction is the price for this peculiar victory over temporality that threatens to constantly transform us.

Contemporary clinical practice confronts this existential dilemma disguised as a chemical problem. The analyst must reintroduce the temporal dimension where drugs have installed chemical parentheses, helping the subject tolerate the anguish of being a canvas modified by time. Learning to inhabit movement proves more healing than any artificial stability.

Psicoterapia

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