The use of drugs raises different positions in different cultures and situations in the world. In terms of public policy, this consumption is taken as pathology or as a crime. In psychoanalysis, we find two theoretical strands: one considers the enjoyment of the drugged as out of the reference to the symptom and fantasy, the other affirms the necessity of taking the drug in specificity in the relationship that the subject establishes with castration in clinical structures. Considering this second way, we aim to realize a biographical case study of Charles Bukowski, whose relationship with alcohol appears intertwined with his written work. In Bukowski, we can say that the use of drugs appears as a committed (he wrote to go against his father) based in fantasy (beating) as a symptom. We verified that's possible and necessary to think about drug addiction in neurosis, analyzing case by case as drugs are inserted in the libidinal economy of each subject.
Psychoanalysis; drugs; case study