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Episode 29: The Anorexic Dynamic. Or: Why eating disorders are not about the food

Lives of the Unconscious. A Podcast on Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy

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Anorexia and Dependency

Anorexia is the formation of a complex defense against one's own urges, that has become associated with food amongst other things. As a reaction to an existential lack, a tyrannical super-ego forms, establishing a dictatorship over one's own needs. In this sense, being thin is secondary, not the goal of some beauty ideal, but instead a visible sign of victory,. A fixation that can lead to delusion.

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