The usual characteristics of anorexia nervosa — starvation, emaciation, amenorrhea — justify that it be considered, from a psychopathological point of view, much more as a “clinic of the object” than as an “eating dysfunction” or a “disorder of body representation.”
In fact, this highlights not only the fact that food presents the “object of desire” in the form of “nothing,” but also the fact that if the body of the anorectic subject is consumed, it is because it is the seat of a specific jouissance of the feminine position, an “Other jouissance,” which it paradoxically contributes to containing and pacifying.
Key words:
Anorexia; femininity; body; object relations