Abstract

OLIVEIRA, Flávia Lana Garcia de. Modern and contemporary eating disorders. Trivium [online]. 2015, vol.7, n.1, pp. 19-29. ISSN 2176-4891.  http://dx.doi.org/10.18370/2176-4891.2015v1p1.

We seek to define some coordinates for a psychoanalytic reading of so-called eating disorders nowadays. Changes in the contemporary discourse have become evident on the scene of psychopathological phenomena and new settings of malaise. The notorious hesitation of the paternal metaphor as a collective symptom of bonding of the drive in the sphere of ideals, puts into question the traditional psychopathology focused on the binary opposition classical neurosis - extraordinary psychosis, whose cardinal point is the presence or absence of the paternal function. In this unprecedented context, plenty of discussions have come forth to redefine the diagnostic tools. The passage from modern to contemporary age has also changed the approach to eating disorders. The focus on the interpretable unconscious gives way to considerations about the symbolic precariousness and its disruptive effects on the body. We believe in a more precise apprehension of these disorders locating the new status of the phantasm in those situations in which the body jouissance overflows.

Keywords : eating disorders; phantasm; psychopathology; contemporaneity.

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