Get out of addiction?

Under the direction of Grégoire Vitry
Contribution by Julien Betbèze, Jean-Pierre Couteron, Gérard Ostermann, Claude de Scorraille, Grégoire Vitry
Followed by an essay by François Jullien

When we are mired in addiction, it may not be very helpful to start by asking “why” and trying to isolate and determine causes. Because perhaps it is already the language in which I speak, the language of “being”, of assignment and explanation, which keeps me, without my knowing it, prisoner. Isn’t there a completely different way to approach addiction? Rather than wanting to "get out of it", as if in search of salvation, shouldn't we start by disengaging from this addiction, undoing its fixed configuration? By opening a gap with it, de-coinciding it. So as to finally have control over her. In order to reopen possibilities in one's life: to bring out a "second life", to bring out, step by step, through "silent transformation", real life . This essay is the result of a meeting between eminent addictologists and the philosophical work of Francois Jullien.