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Addiction: The Body Speaks the Unspoken

David Sahyoun, 24/09 18:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Understanding addiction means looking beyond the mere fact of dependency. If the first part traced the origins of emptiness and the formation of lack, the challenge now is to grasp why—when suffering cannot be symbolized—the body steps in and makes the symptom speak. Since Freud, psychoanalysis has tried to probe what escapes language: ...

Iraq's Prohibition Zeal Threatens Baghdad's Boozy Subculture

This is Beirut, 2024-12-22 09:50 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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The smell of dampness rises through the dust at a private club in central Baghdad, one of many shut in a crackdown on alcohol sales in Iraq. "We appealed to all authorities in the country, but no one listened to us," said the owner, a Christian who asked not to be named. Although a law banning the sale and import of alcohol was passed in 2016 ...

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