And there is an apect in which intoxication can become hostile to consciousness.
Intoxication is no more morally problematic than a material.
It is a matter of how it is used. Removing intoxication from the sphere of intellect in art, even in regards to a dialectical model, is just another one of those freedoms chipped away. And Naphta has a different take both trying to win the mind of Hans Castorp. OR even the arguments in Portrait of the ARtist as a young man. I for one have never been comfortable with dialectical constructions.