Does Addiction Have A Subject?: Desire in Contemporary U.S. Culture.
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This paper traces the emergence of a new figure of the desiring subject in contemporary addiction science and in three other recent cultural developments: the rise of cognitive-behavior therapy, the self-tracking movement, and the dissemination of ratings. In each, the subject's desire becomes newly figured as a response to objects rather than a manifestation of the soul, measured numerically rather than expressed in language and rendered impersonal rather than individualizing. Together, these developments suggest a shift in the dominant form of the desiring subject in contemporary U.S. culture, one that breaks with the subject-form that Foucault theorized five decades ago. |
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2021
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The Journal of medical humanities
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Date Published | :
2021
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1041-3545
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s10912-021-09682-6
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DOI | :
10.1007/s10912-021-09682-6
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J Med Humanit
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