Abstract

MULLER, Débora Dias  and  CASTELO, Regina. Anorexia and the lack of substance in the mother-daughter relationship. Estud. psicanal. [online]. 2015, n.43, pp. 51-56. ISSN 0100-3437.

This paper is a study of anorexia disorder that affects mainly women. Psychoanalytic theory highlights issues of subjective, structural and lack of substance inherent in mother and daughter relationship. This as being the set of factors that are organized in triggering that initiate the psychological suffering that devastates the lives of their sufferers, also may cause death in many cases. The understanding of what goes on in the mother-daughter relationship is the purpose of this text, with the father entry, or the paternal metaphor in the interdiction of this relationship, the strategic entry into the dimension of healing of this scene.

Keywords : Mother-daughter relationship; Phychoanalytic theory; Lack of substance; Paternal metaphor.

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