ABSTRACT
J. Lacan emphasizes that the analyst only intervenes with words and not with drugs on the body. The direction of the treatment of addicts is a matter of managing the transference in such a way that via speech within the transference the particular effects of drugs and alcohol on the subject can be influenced via an effect on the "knowledge in the real". The universal function of the therapist/analyst creates the possibility for the production of the very particular in the subject. The responsability of the analyst is to allow the transference to unfold, or take place, around his or her position as object. Through analytic work on fantasy and other solutions such as addiction, it is possible to establish a change in the subject's economy of jouissance. Addicts are caught between two masters and in their period of so-called "active addiction", they have chosen the master that is the drug or alcohol.
