ABSTRACT
Considered from a psychoanalytic point of view there is no such thing as an expertise in addiction, but to pay special attention to addiction is important, because it is arguably a paradigmatic expression of the suffering of the modern subject and, moreover, it is a crucial problem for psychoanalysis. The importance of the subject–Other relationship for the development of the individual and the question of the identity of the subject form a serious problem for the concept of dual diagnosis in addiction. The notions of the subject–Other relationship and the identity of the subject undermine the idea of a classification system that works for the domain of addiction treatment. The Freudian symptom is an Oedipal symptom and in that context it should be considered as an unconscious appeal to the Other for interpretation, meaning, and, therefore, truth. The symptom of the modern subject is first and foremost jouissance or rather something that produces jouissance.
