The text discusses the complex relationship of the subject with the mother's desire in the scope of the phenomenon of mental anorexia. It highlights the established relationship between the pulsional satisfaction from the feeding activity and the mental functioning in the production of symptoms related to the eating disorder. It focuses on the fundamental aspect of the singularity characteristic of the interference of the component mother/daughter on the appearance of the anorexic symptoms, that is, the mental anorexia as a resistant element to the maternal omnipotence.
mental anorexia; desire; maternal omnipotence; object nothing