Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The present work aims to analyze the consideration of problems with food as manifestations of the rejection of the Other or as signs of the forclusion of the Father’s Name. Taking the Lacanian psychoanalytic theory and in articulation with current clinical practice, we propose the thesis that mental anorexia teaches the path of the unconscious in the direction of a more structured formation, a signifier of the unconscious, that is, towards neurotic production. It is not a classification problem, but a pragmatic issue, how is mental anorexia the beginning of an extension of enjoyment towards a development that allows to stabilize the subject? How does psychoanalysis operate as a therapeutic instrument tending to transform the psychic condition of mental anorexia into a symptom that allows a new functioning for the subject? It is concluded that eating nothing is not necessarily a practice of enjoyment outside of speech that implies a rejection of the Other, but could well be read as a formation in a primitive state of the unconscious structured as a language and allow an orientation towards the cure that does not depend only on the sometimes necessary pharmacological relief.
Author: Balzarini, Marco Máximo
Language: Spanish
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7220175793