Abstract:
Drive and its madness: voice and the anorexic body. In the psychoanalytic clinic, we observe that, although the ideology that enthrones slimness as a contemporary ideal is always represented in the discourse of the anorexic, the voice of a cruel superego is also present in anorexia, in which the mandates of self-destruction, very often, lead effectively to death. Anorexia aims to open a hole in the Other, promoting a separation between the subject and the maternal Other, which makes desire possible. However, the death drive, amalgamated in different proportions to Eros and represented by the hatred of the superego, is an obstacle for the action of the psychoanalyst.
Keywords:
anorexia; death drive; superego; voice; incorporation.