Abstract

VIEIRA, Camilla Araújo Lopes. Anorexia: a separation attempt between the Subject and the Other. Rev. Mal-Estar Subj. [online]. 2008, vol.8, n.3, pp. 645-660. ISSN 1518-6148.

The anorexia is understood by the medical knowledge like an alimentary disturb that presents the trace of the food refusing. Beginning from what would be the anorexia for the psychoanalysis, we distance from the reference to the simple "not eating" and propose to understand the anorexia like an "eating nothing". That construction implies the subject attempt to throw the nothing like an object, operating a distinct champ between him and the Other and, consequently, delimiting his wishing space. Gap, distance, at last, a noted distinction between his wish and the Other's wish, even he can use his own death like a condition. Disabled to give what he doesn't have, the Other offer food and crams the subject with his suffocating pap, not discerning the given cares from the gift of love. Thus, neither epidemic of our days or mere media propagated ideal. Located in the space opened to the wish, the anorexia appears like a subject claim. Even the death can be glimpsed, even like the last chance, the subject continues trying to make his wish being valid and differ it from the Other's wish. So, we conclude that anorexia can be understood as a form, by the subject, like a way to separate himself from the Other's wish in a claim to not give up his own wish.

Keywords : psychoanalysis; anorexia; wish; separation; symptom.

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