Abstract

FERREIRA, Vanessa Sajnaj; GUZZONI, Caroline  and  SOUZA, Nei Ricardo de. Reflections on the role of the father in nervous anorexia. Analytica [online]. 2017, vol.6, n.11, pp. 180-204. ISSN 2316-5197.

Anorexia is an eating disorder where there is an advanced alimentary restriction, causing an intense weight loss and others physical, psychological and social damages and may even lead to death. The reports of the psychoanalytic clinic show, in the refusal mechanism, typical of the anorexia, aspects besides the food question and the body image. The analyst is often faced with the primitive, links and language, of the anorexic, which refers to the beginnings of the life and feeding. Great part of the psychoanalytic literature emphasizes the mother in those relationships, whom is detached as someone that keeps a fusional relationship with her daughter, in which the father is excluded. Based on the vision of Freud and Lacan, this paper investigates the role of the father in anorexia, being discussed his relationship with the anorexic based on data and information found in the psychoanalytic literature on the subject.

Keywords : Anorexia; Father; Psychoanalysis.

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