ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the lifeworld of the addict by describing commonalities adopted by those who suffer from addiction. I contend that addiction has the effect of worlding the world of the addict-subject. This worlding is a unique matrix of lived relations to things, to others, and to time. This way of being in the world does not dissolve or change when active addiction stops, but in fact persists. Thus one of the key factors in recovery is the adoption of another way of being in the world.
