ABSTRACT
There are many issues to point out about the interesting and clear work made by Tom Svolos. This chapter highlights a couple of issues, although many other interesting things may be developed. As Svolos argues, it is better to search for the singularity of each symptom rather than sticking to the only one explanation which sustains that addiction is a new symptom. Svolos' first case clearly shows such an issue. It is about a woman who held a ritualized consumption that enabled her to sustain the Name-of-the-Father. Such a woman turns to Alcoholics Anonymous, and it is observed that ultimately such treatments are aimed at keeping the subject's consumption within the market patterns. Svolos shows how such therapies, where the consuming subject's position remains intact, can be sustained. Likewise, Svolos shows that, in order to touch the nucleus of the symptom, it is necessary to dive into the singularity of each case.
