the doctrine she's learned to mock
It’s not about Hitting Bottom ingesting any sort of Substance and trying to Surrender, is it?
Context
The recovery vocabulary surfacing as parody: Kate has been in the House long enough to have absorbed Hitting Bottom and Surrender as capitalized doctrine, and she deploys them now to wave off Marathe's story even as she performs, drink by drink, the relapse the doctrine describes. Fluency in the program's language turns out to be no defense against the thing the language is about.