TY - BOOK AU - Ego,Sylvette TI - Alcohol “in the Singular”: Alcohol and Libido PY - 2011///. N1 - 17 N2 - François Perrier, a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (1922–1990), wrote a book in which he describes and analyzes his experience as an alcoholic. Both the title and the content of the book testify to a reality Ferenczi had previously acknowledged: one always drinks in the singular. Drinking results from psychic suffering and does not cause it; it makes it bearable until this “remedy” turns into a poison. We should remember that we owe this knowledge to psychoanalysis UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-savoirs-et-cliniques-2011-1-page-99?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -