Abstract

COSTA VAL, Alexandre; DUARTE FELIX MARINHO, Paula; ASSIS FERREIRA, Roberto  and  ROSA, Márcia. Anorexia: an image unmasked. Psicol. rev. (Belo Horizonte) [online]. 2014, vol.20, n.2, pp. 243-259. ISSN 1677-1168.  http://dx.doi.org/DOI-10.5752/P.1678-9523.2014v20n2p243.

This paper discusses anorexia from the hypothesis that it may be one of actual feminine strategies of dealing with its body. For this, the concept of feminine and phallic masquerade in lacanian psychoanalysis is investigated, highlighting the failure of this artifice in anorexic subjects. It presented the clinical case of a woman with anorexic symptoms which led to the hypothesis and its theoretical development

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