It is argued that the fundamental addiction of human beings is to the “object” self. It is further argued that the existence of this, our fundamental, addiction constitutes both the necessary and the sufficient condition for all of our more specific addictive involvements. This being so, a blanket invulnerability to all forms of addiction would require that this “object” self be made to relinquish its present position of unquestioned preeminence within our calculus of considerations. This, in turn, would require that we learn to refrain from automatically identifying with—i.e., saying “I” and “mine” to—everything that mechanically arises within us.
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