Resumo

MACHADO, Maria Goretti. Morbid obesity in contemporaneity: between the excess of the body and the silence of words. Ide (São Paulo) [online]. 2017, vol.39, n.63, pp.135-147. ISSN 0101-3106.

In this paper we aim to develop a reflexion about the place of the body of a morbid obese since antiquity till contemporaneity. In try to understand the obese's psychic movement, we will discuss what is the finality of obesity and its relationship with the compulsive eating. Compulsive and excessive eating creates a big mass that protects the subject form free energy, which runs the body without signification.

Palavras-chave : Morbid obesity; Contemporaneity; Defense; Death drive.

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