This paper addresses the relationship between the forms of subjectivation that result from situations of social vulnerability and crack abuse. Drawing from a clinical case, examine we examined how crack’s action in the pulsional body is connected to the subject’s experience and to his or her social embeddedness in society and sociocultural reality. We observed a strong connection between the body’s statute in the use of crack and the place assigned to the body in situations of social vulnerability and exclusion.
Crack; body; social vulnerability; psychoanalysis