Artículos de revistas
Anorexia: a failure in the work of melancholia
Anorexia: um fracasso do trabalho da melancolia;
Anorexie: l'échec du travail de la mélancolie;
Anorexia: un fracaso en el trabajo de la melancolía;
Anorexie: ein versagen der melancholieverarbeitung
Fecha
2012Registro en:
Rev. latinoam. psicopatol. fundam.,v.15,n.3,p.649-656,2012
1415-4714
10.1590/S1415-47142012000500002
Autor
Gonzaga, Ana Paula
Institución
Resumen
The self-reproach against their own bodies seen in patients with eating disorders has led us to posit the existence of failures in the work of melancholia. Defined by Freud in 1915, this process of melancholia is aimed at repairing a loss felt as unbearable by the ego and that triggers off a violent struggle with ambivalent feelings toward the lost object. The resulting hatred is aimed at the shadow of the object that falls on the ego. Especially in anorexia nervosa, there seems to be a regressive movement that goes beyond this.