Will Consumption Psychoactive? Addiction for Thinking Otherwise

Abstract

This present woven writing deploys the problematizations about psychoactive consumption through practices and discourses that circulate about this object, which allows relations between the notion of consumption in the actual society, legality and legitimacy of the psychoactive substances, the preoccupation about the health and illness, the prevention through education, among other issues, and then the boarding that it proposed more than be an economic, legal, medical or psychological issue, it’s a question about the subject and the conditions of possibility of others thoughts related to oneself, to something else and to others, is therefore an ethical, political, esthetical and of course, pedagogical wager. From this perspective, the interrogation about the psychoactive consumption doesn’t pretend to reiterate that is a problem, neither to formulate therapy mitigation, nor to restore a new way of being, nor to defend their practices, but through pedagogy and being teacher can make visible how it is constituted in a way to say and do about the subject, which allows problematizations and reflections conducive to raise other forms of boarding in the school and allows other ways of thinking the elections and configurations of subject’s life.