“Why return?”, On the Notion of the “Wiederkehr” and its Implications for the Clinic of Toxicomania

by | Vol 19 (1/2) 2001

This paper reviews the Freudian notion of the “Wiederkehr”, or “return”, as elaborated in Lacan’s Seminar on The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis. Futhermore, the author describes how the possibility of a return is implied in the psychoanalytic intervention strategy on a psychiatric ward for crisis intervention with drug addicts.

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