Thinking about the phenomenology, psychology, and philosophy of addiction

In sharing my transdisciplinary “bibliography on addiction” with a Facebook group dedicated to psychoanalytic psychology, I wrote the following by way of “an introduction or perhaps provocation.” Immediately below, I repeat in the first paragraph what I wrote in the original introduction to the bibliography, which was stated rather abstractly and summarily:More than a few titles are not about addiction quaaddiction, but deal with subject matter pertaining to the psychological, ethical and cultural questions that surround addiction as self-destructive behavior in the context of variables, causes, and consequences that are, we might say, at once individual or intrapersonal and interpersonal (in an intimate sense) and social. Yet the distinctions serve a purpose, as they are essential in addressing the specific dynamics and dialectics of interaction between these two dimensions or poles so as to better understand the nature of addiction in the contemporary…

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