The overdose of the absolute.

The most dangerous overdose isn't chemical but existential: believing we can eliminate forever the lack that constitutes us.

The overdose of the absolute.

There exists an intoxication more deadly than any substance: the fantasy that we can experience the All. While chemical overdoses collapse organic systems, the "alloverdose" collapses the very structure of desire that keeps us alive as subjects. This existential overdose doesn't kill the body but something worse: it kills the lack that allows us to keep desiring, seeking, living in the incompleteness that defines us as human.

The alloverdose reveals the deadly core of late capitalism: it doesn't sell objects but the promise of total saturation. Like children who believe they can eat the entire candy store, contemporary subjects pursue experiences that promise to definitively exhaust existential hunger. But hunger is not a problem to solve but a condition to inhabit. When we promise to eliminate it completely, we produce monsters: subjects who have lost the capacity to desire because they believe they have found formulas for absolute satisfaction.

The clinic receives victims of this conceptual overdose: people who consumed so much the idea of plenitude that they lost access to partial pleasures, imperfect encounters, incomplete satisfactions that constitute the real texture of human life. They have overdosed on the infinite and no longer know how to inhabit the finite that we are.

Psychotherapy

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