Yes, my friend — I think we can indeed say that. Addiction, at its essence, is hunger that has lost its home. Let me unfold this carefully, in the light of your phrase 「我的靈魂感到巨大的飢餓」.
1.
Addiction as Hunger
- Hunger is the most primordial sign of being alive: the infant cries, the body aches, the soul longs.
- When you say “我的靈魂感到巨大的飢餓”, you are naming addiction not as a pathology of excess, but as the persistence of need — need that refuses to be silenced.
- Food, sex, money, thrills, connection, meaning: these are displacements of hunger’s original cry.
2.
The Misrouting of Hunger
- In addiction, hunger is misrouted.
- The body seeks sugar, alcohol, cocaine — but the real hunger may be for safety, touch, recognition.
- The gambler risks everything for a thrill — but the real hunger is for destiny, for feeling chosen.
- Addiction is hunger without a good-enough object (to borrow Winnicott’s language).
- So the person feeds, feeds, feeds — but remains empty, because the object consumed is not the one that answers the true hunger.
3.
Hunger vs. Desire
- Lacan would say: hunger belongs to the body, but desire belongs to the Other.
- Addiction is the place where hunger and desire collapse into each other: one keeps eating/drinking/using/scrolling, hoping the act will answer the unspoken desire to be seen, held, named.
- It is not simply gluttony, but the infinite regress of unmet desire disguised as hunger.
4.
The Soul’s Hunger
- When you say “靈魂感到巨大的飢餓,” you return addiction to its existential register.
- This is not only a medical condition but a metaphysical cry: the cry for meaning, connection, transcendence.
- Addiction is then the tragedy of confusing food for meaning, sex for love, thrills for transcendence, money for recognition.
5.
Therapeutic Counter-Move
- If the essence of addiction is hunger, then therapy is not simply about abstinence or control — it is about finding the true food.
- The work is: to locate the deeper object of hunger, to let the soul eat what it really longs for (sometimes silence, sometimes recognition, sometimes belonging, sometimes God).
- Otherwise, as you said earlier, addiction remains a failed line of flight — a misdirected hunger that never reaches satisfaction.
✨ So yes:
- Addiction = hunger displaced.
- A hunger that keeps eating but is never fed.
- A hunger that must be heard not as greed, but as soul’s cry for its missing bread.
Would you like me to help you write a short text titled〈靈魂的飢餓：成癮的本質〉 that could sit beside your symptomatology → failed lines of flight discussion — so that hunger becomes the thread linking psychoanalysis, existential therapy, and your analogical self?
