Junkie Drives: A Lacanian Psychoanalysis of Drug Consumption

Accessibly written 60-page A5-size booklet, intended for both clinical or personal use, looking at what non-normativizing psychoanalysis can teach us about the human struggle with pleasure via the enjoyment of drugs, and what it might mean to live a self-determined, desirous, and multi-faceted life where we don’t hand over more agency to drugs than we’d like to.

Especially suited for:

± everyone looking to get a hands-on, jargon-free grasp on Freudian/Lacanian concepts of drive, desire, jouissance, fantasy, death drive, repetition compulsion;

± everyone who wants to read a psychology—not just a morality—of drug enjoyment;