Andrada Fatu-Tutoveanu
The tradition of a social imaginary on a certain “dangerous/ infernal chemistry” was for centuries related to the mysterious techniques of witchcraft, while, by contrast, the 20th century places addiction in a medical paradigm, associated with legal prohibition. The switch from a mainly religious perspective to a scientific one, which has taken place during the 19th century, signified that the ethical (or theological) and magical imagery and vocabulary were replaced by biological and psychiatric metaphors, such as the notion of temptation, replaced by impulses or drives
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