ABSTRACT
The foundation for the conception of science is a belief that nature contains laws and an order which exist independently of the researcher. Scientific knowledge is the observation, registration and systematization of this "order of things". It is very important to look at the possibility of developing a radically different approach to our understanding of psychopathology and especially to addiction which, of all the mental pathologies, is arguably the one that occurs most frequently. Addiction as a social symptom creates a specific social bond and forms a particular structure. The symbolic castration and lack can be accepted, disavowed or rejected by the subject, but one way or another, addiction seeks administration. The toxicity in addiction, when one considers addiction as a separate clinical entity, concerns a jouissance of the body which threatens the subject when the phallic or sexual jouissance of the signifier is unable to contain it.
