Drugs, addiction and initiation; the modern search for ritual
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TextBoston Sigo Press c1989Description: [x], 133p.; bibliog. notes; indexContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0-9384-34-39-X
- HV5801.Z6513 1989
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Substance Abuse : Psychological aspects.
Trans. by Marc E. Romano and Robert Mercurio. Foreword by Adolf Guggenbuhl-Craig. Trans. of Nascere non basta.
Foreword. 1. Introduction. 2. Reflections on the problem. 3. Archetypal fantaies underlying drug addiction. 4. Drugs and society. 5. Death and rebirth, and the death of rebirth. 6. The story of "Carlo". 7. From initiation to consumerism. 8. Rebirth today
...evinces the unsettling argument that the pervasive abuse of drugs in our society can to a large extent be ascribed to the resurgence of a collective need for initiation and initiatory structures....In a society without ritual the drug addict seeks not so much the thrill of a high as the satisfaction of the inner need for a participation mystique....
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