Anorexia and bulimia in the light of Lacan's graph of desire

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  • Manuel Asensi Pérez Universitat de València
  • Carla Asensi Richart Universitat de València

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7203/qdfed.27.25733

Keywords:

anorexy, bulimia, psychoanalysis, Freud, Lacan, topology

Abstract

In this text we deal with feeding problems in the light of what is known in Lacanian terms as the graph of desire. This dates from the years 1958-59 when Lacan gave his seminar on Desire and its interpretation, currently published as number 6 of the Seminar in the official edition of Jacques-Alain Miller in 2013. It appears again in the essay “Subversion du sujet et dialectique du désir dans l’inconscient freudien”, published in 1966 in his book Ëcrits. Lacan’s topologies have the virtue of clarifying pathological phenomena and shedding light on them, as well as the structure of the personality. An unavoidable place of passage will be the Freudian theory of the oral drive, which constitutes the discovery of the central problem of this pathological phenomenon, and the basis on which all subsequent psychoanalytic developments are based.

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Published

2022-12-22

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Asensi Pérez, M., & Asensi Richart, C. (2022). Anorexia and bulimia in the light of Lacan’s graph of desire. Quaderns De Filologia - Estudis Literaris, 27, 43–57. https://doi.org/10.7203/qdfed.27.25733
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Vol. 27 (2022): Contemporary world literature as a mirror-denunciation of eating disorders

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