Citation

Rainaut J, Taleghani M. Ann. Med. Psychol. (Paris) 1981; 139(5): 529-544.

Vernacular Title

Mytho-logique de l'alcoolisation.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1981, Societe Medico-Psychologique, Publisher Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

7305185

Abstract

The social order relies on a whole of standards and requires the conformity of the individuals to his models. The consumers of alcohol - alcoholized people - either stay in the order which makes pressure on them to bring them to consume still staying within the standards of consumption according to a process of which the works stay unknown, either drift progressively towards marginality and subversion. Their behaviour is described as a "disease", description which works as a myth as well as a reality, the perception and description of the treatment supposed to be opposed to it acts on the same manner. The consumption of alcohol - alcoholization - can be understood as a social doing which testifies the adhesion to the standard and/or a personal doing in view of a research of psychotropy. Alcoholism announces itself when the alcoholization is perceived by the Other as a deviation and an existential tactical. It is not a clinic diagnosis as one may let believe, but a stigma, a label, even a judgment over a scandal. And then begins the misfortune to the one by whom the scandal arises.

Language: fr