This study presents reflections about clinical intervention in the area of drug addiction consisting of a writing workshop with patients living at a recovery center for alcoholics and drug addicts. Through the analysis of two texts produced during the workshop, we examine chemical dependence as a place of discourse which evokes the conflicts of a culture. We also discuss the construction of narrative as a form of representing a given subjective condition. Writing takes on a clinical status to the extent that it enables subjective inscription, consisting of the registration of another body, comprised of fragments of drives. This approach is sustained by bibliographical references to Freudian-Lacanian psychoanalysis.
Drug addiction; writing; body; imagination