Liquid ideals

We consume our ideals until they are extinct. Addicted to the sacred in portable format, we have lost the distance that makes worship possible.

Liquid ideals

Objects have become solutions. Where once there existed unattainable ideals that guided us from the heights, we now consume pills, powders, and pixels that promise to deliver in digestible format what we once pursued as horizon: instant transcendence, packaged connection, identity with barcode. Addiction is not excess but chemical transformation of the ideal: from external compass to internal fuel.

Paradoxically, the more we attempt to materialize our ideals into tangible objects, the more their structuring function vanishes. Like someone trying to capture wind in jars: the very act of possession destroys what we intend to preserve. The void that addictive objects promise to fill expands precisely with each new acquisition that should reduce it.

Contemporary clinical practice receives exhausted consumers of liquid ideals that evaporate after each dose. The true analytic work consists of restoring the distance between subject and ideal, reintroducing impossibility as a constitutive dimension of desire. Addiction converts horizons into destinations; analysis returns horizons to their guiding but unreachable function.

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