Capitalismo, ciência e subjetividade: considerações a respeito da obesidade e cirurgia bariátrica

• Autor(a) principal: Oliveira, Rafaela Carolina Moutte de
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Trabalho de conclusão de curso
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.pucsp.br/jspui/handle/handle/36543
• topic: CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA; Obesidade mórbida; Cirurgia bariátrica; Psicanálise; Capitalismo; Morbid obesity; Bariatric surgery; Psychoanalysis; Capitalism

Currently obesity is considered a public health problem, as it sets no race, gender, age or social level. Thereby, there is a significant increase of obesity in the world. In Brazil, between 1975 and 1989, obesity increased 70%. The question to be observed in this paper is why this rampant growth and what it has to do, or what is its relationship with the contemporary society which we live in. For discussion, we will take psychoanalytic theory to understand this scenario from another point of view, it is not just medical and social, for the treatment of morbid obesity, it is very focused on the medical and behavioral area. The aim of this paper is to contribute with regards to an understanding of obesity that situated beyond the symptom as a sign, medical model that takes the rising tide of bariatric surgery, capitalist speech product that disregards the subject and its relation to the symptom. The symptom in psychoanalysis is a metaphor, subjective expression of the word of power over the body, cryptic message that the subject takes as the real coming and whose elimination can lead to devastation