Abstract

LEMOS, Inez. Bulimia and anorexy: lack and excess's mental illness. Mental [online]. 2005, vol.3, n.5, pp. 81-89. ISSN 1679-4427.

This article debates the mental illness related to the narcissim process (ilness of the lack and the excess), focusing at the mother function. What is the relation between anorexy and bulimia and the decline of the mother function in the current world? The work makes a joint between the narcissistic problems and the female's pshycogenesis, pointing an imperfection in the subject fears's process, that operates a deadly joy, taking to the first experiences of satisfaction as the breast-feeding, the object a.

Keywords : Bulimia; Anorexy; Object a; Narcissistic problems; Feminine sexuality.

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