Ms. Mann's uneven new album, "Lost in Space" (Superego/United Musicians), is loosely organized around the theme of addiction.
What ties all of this together is the underlying theme of addiction, or what Burroughs called the "algebra of need," where the increasingly desperate quest for heroin serves as a metaphor for equally destructive obsessions revolving around the need for control, be it sexual, political, or social.
In Misery, themes of addiction and entrapment abound.
So when I first read The Tommyknockers, the same themes of addiction didn't sit with me as they should.
At times, the pulpy action series gets reflective with ruminations about the comfort of family versus the power of independence, and tackles themes of addiction along the way.
This year's "Uncharted 4," for instance, turns a film interactive and uses violence as a metaphor to explore larger themes of addiction and commitment. .
Jill Schary Robinson is a Los Angeles-based novelist, essayist, illustrator, and teacher, whose memoirs contend with the themes of addiction, recovery, and growing up during the golden age of Hollywood.
With their troubled heroines, haunted castles (or bad-vibe hotels), fakes and counterfeits, long-buried secrets, madwomen, controlling patriarchs, damsels in distress, reckless cads, depravity and the looming threat of financial ruin, these stories are striking for their endlessly recurring themes of excess, addiction, decadence and madness.
Rowling draws on her newfound liberty to touch on themes of heroin addiction, prostitution, drug dealing, online porn, self-harm with razor blades, child abuse and the rape of a teenage girl.
Within the bio-psycho-social models of addiction theme, defining substance misuse, dependence and addictive behaviour was the most frequently taught topic in medical education (n = 291, an average of 16 sessions per medical school).
But as the title of the show suggests, its theme is the condition of addiction, which Mr. Lundholm, like many a 12-step graduate, takes a certain amount of pride in even as he makes claims to the contrary.
