Abstract

SIMONI, Joana Maia  and  BASTOS, Angélica. When anorexia is a matter of sexuation. Arq. bras. psicol. [online]. 2013, vol.65, n.3, pp. 409-420. ISSN 1809-5267.

From clinical observations of the high incidence of anorexia among young women, the present work is dedicated to the research of the relationship between the anorectic symptom and femininity. Our hypothesis is that the anorexic symptom configures a response of some young women in face of the consequences of sexuation and of the encounter with female jouissance. The continuity between children's anorexia, in which eating nothing pops up as a separator object, and anorexia as a response to female jouissance and the sexation dilemmas are questioned. We analyze Freud's contributions concerning the assumption of the sex and the resumption of this problematic undertaken by Lacan, who shifts the Freudian phallocentrism, proposing the logic of the not whole, peculiar to the female jouissance, correlative to the women's position. As a result, the article maintains that some types of anorexia in young women represent a rejection of this Other jouissance that erupts in the body.

Keywords : Femininity; Anorexia; Sexuation; Female jouissance.

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