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“You Can Throw Up Until the End, But You Can’t Remove Your Mother From Inside You” - Psychoanalysis, Subject and Eating Disorders

Abstract

The work intend to describe and reflect about psychoanalytic concepts related to eating disorders, from the knowledge mobilised in the psychoanalyst clinic in which the fieldwork was conducted. It is about investigate the conceptions of the constitution of the subject, sexuality and gender involved in the cases analysed by the psychoanalyst of the institution. The purpose is to describe psychoanalytic concepts related to the relationship between mother and daughter from which flaws in the constitution of the psychic apparatus can occurs, causing symptoms such as anorexia and bulimia.

Gender; Eating Disorders; Psychoanalysis

Núcleo de Estudos de Gênero - Pagu Universidade Estadual de Campinas, PAGU Cidade Universitária "Zeferino Vaz", Rua Cora Coralina, 100, 13083-896, Campinas - São Paulo - Brasil, Tel.: (55 19) 3521 7873, (55 19) 3521 1704 - Campinas - SP - Brazil
E-mail: cadpagu@unicamp.br