Abstract

MIRANDA, Marina Ramalho. In search of the lost words: body-jailer of the mind in eating disorders. Ide (São Paulo) [online]. 2007, vol.30, n.45, pp.28-34. ISSN 0101-3106.

In this paper, the author discuss the specificity of possible analytical language in young women psychoanalytical process suffering some eating disorders specially anorexia and bulimia, where the body is mana ged to stamp some affects, antithetic emotions, which remains lost and denied into the fusional relationship of the internalized maternal image, causing the body-mind dissociation and the tendency to the acting out instead of cool thinking.

Keywords : Anorexia; Bulimia; Body versus mind; Language.

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