I'm only early into sobriety (once again) but I don't look at alcohol as some kind of existential being. In fact (for me) I find it unhelpful. In every day life we would call it projecting. The projection of blame onto another thing or person.
In my story I'm the problem. Not alcohol, people, work, circumstance or anything else.
Me.
I'm the problem.
And it's me I have to fix.
JT