The fourth movement of this project examines addiction as a clinical and existential reality emerging from the structure of modern consciousness itself. What appears merely as pathology or disorder often discloses a deeper effort to stabilize psychic life under conditions of fragmentation, interiorization, and spiritual exhaustion. This part gathers writings that explore addiction, compulsion, suffering, and the modern search for psychic survival.
Essays
- Addiction, Clinical Responsibility, and the Limits of Cure
- Truth in the Psychology of Wolfgang Giegerich: Addiction, Analysis, and Consciousness
- Toward a Philosophical Definition of Addiction (Revised)
- Consciousness, the DSM, and the Somatic Turn
- Toward a Philosophy of Addiction?
- From Dionysus to Diagnosis
- Why Treatment Must Not Promise What History Has Withdrawn
- Recovery After Metaphysics
- Addiction as Civilizational Self-Medication
- From Daimōn to Dopamine