It was questioned if drug addiction could be understood as enjoyment through the discharge of death instinct on oneself, or if it would be simultaneously the action of life instinct. It was concluded that it would be both death and life instincts acting at the same time. Drug addiction brings concomitantly silence and some "symbolization". It was found the elaboration between children's joke and the ideal of the analytical cure in the symbolic access, mourning for the original loss. Self-destruction and the suicide attempt by ingesting drugs were understood as melancholy and maniac denial at the same time.
Drug Addiction; Toxicomania; Suicide; Elaboration; Psychoanalysis