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If you like this book and feel it has been helpful in your life, don’t read the rest of this review. I will always preface everything I have to say about life advice or self-help or spirituality with the caveat that if it works for you, you don’t need me or anyone else to approve it. I don’t know you or your life’s circumstances. I don’t know what works or doesn’t for you. This review is for the…
“These outcomes are a testament, I think, not to the power of a simplistic compulsion, but to the complexity of the enigmatic internal forces that lie beneath the stereotype.” “Just like all the other best parts of rehab, it was nothing more than the experience of being around people who understood.”
“Alcohol is everywhere in your life, omnipresent, and you’re both aware and unaware of it almost all the time; all you know is you’d die without it, and there is no simple reason why this happens, no single moment, no physiological event that pushes a heavy drinker across a concrete line into alcoholism. It’s a slow, gradual, insidious, elusive becoming”
“Do the cocaine” is the obvious answer, but the book has a lot more to say than that. It took me a while to appreciate the critical perspective philosophers of science provide about our research institutions. We take our instruments and traditions of knowledge for granted out of a very common human impulse to respect the legacy of the humans who came before us, so that those who inherit the…
In English, “On Cocaine”, and to answer your questions: yes, Freud wrote “On Cocaine” while on cocaine.