Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction 1
5. Philosophical and Literary Reflections on Addiction
6. The Rhetoric of Drugs 19
7. Nietzsche’s Dionysian High 45
8. Ariadne’s Thread 59
9. Profane Hallucinations 75
10. Heidegger’s Craving 95
11. Trauma, Addiction, and Temporal Bulimia in Madame Bovary 133
12. Baudelaire, Artaud, and the Aesthetics of Intoxication 157
13. “Junk” and the Other 173
14. Socio-Cultural and Psychological Reflections on Addiction
15. Socially Significant Drugs 199
16. Freud’s Pharmacy 209
17. Schreber’s Ecstasies, or Who Ever Listened to Daniel Paul? 233
18. Smoke Screen 261
19. Love Junkies 279
20. Possession, Addiction, Fragmentation 297
21. Gambling and Addiction 309
22. Addicts Without Drugs 339
23. The Drug Addict in Absentia 355
24. Contributors 377
25. Index 381