This paper is a psychoanalytic study about anorexia, a pathology whose incidence is increasing in contemporary clinic. Here the significance of the dimension of psychical violence is emphasized, a drive violence that ultimately derives from the other. One of the main features involved in this issue is the trend to fixation in the pre-oedipal level, correlative to the weakness in the exercise of father function. Taking into account this denial of otherness, the pathology of anorexia can be regarded as a kind of elementary and precarious response to this lack of differentiation.
Anorexia; psychical violence; primary relationship; father function