Anorexia: socio-economic considerations and psychoanalytic conceptions

Abstract

¿Is anorexia currently an issue? ¿Is it a trendy phenomenon? ¿Why are there so many approaches and so few results? These and many other concerns have been raised by the outbreak of cases recorded and the many approaches and definitions brought by it. On one hand, thanks to advertising and the aesthetic standards of beauty, we analyze the great impact of consumption logic without measure tied to the spreading of images of what’s considered svelte; on the other hand, we have the psychological and psychic explanations that considers the effect of the presence of a lashing mother that subdues her daughter’s desire, which establishes a chaotic relationship with the consumption of food and the experience of femininity, or supposes that our contemporaneity promotes the open and unrestrained flow of ways for jouissance of the speaking beings, that result in modifications and innovations in the ways we relate to each other and build society. This scene calls for an attempt to clarify and establish the possible limits and obstacles found in what’s been said about
anorexia in the socioeconomic, and clinical-psychoanalytical contexts —without ignoring the historical grounds of the phenomenon— and that this article pretends to condense through its key points. © Revista Colombiana de Ciencias Sociales.