This paper aims at discussing anorexia and its predominant incidence among young women, drawing out some indications for psychoanalytical treatment from the experience theorization. Anorexia as a contemporary symptom is discussed and the hypothesis of a parity strategy between the genders is examined. The anorectic response is articulated to the problematic of sexuation in Jacques Lacan's teaching. Such response is circumscribed in the impasse related to the nonexistence of the women's universality. Based on a case fragment, an interrogation is made upon the maneuver to establish an exception on the woman's side of the gender division and the anguish function in this clinic is indicated.
Anorexia; feminity; sexuation; psychoanalysis; Jacques Lacan