Comer, demandar, desejar: considerações psicanalíticas sobre o corpo e o objeto na obesidade

• Autor(a) principal: Seixas, Cristiane Marques
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/4191
• topic: Obesity; Psychoanalysis; Body; Compulsion; Emptiness; Obesidade; Psicanálise; Corpo; Compulsão; Vazio; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::SAUDE COLETIVA

The present study discusses the psychoanalytic treatment of obesity, considering the impasses in the management of this problematic. Starting with the analysis of the pathologizing of the fat body, its medicating and the bio-political issues of body regulation, a differentiation between the medical symptom and its subjective aspect is proposed. Contextualizing the culture in the present days, which places evidence on the body, it develops a separation between necessity and demand, proposed by Lacan, to think about an ethical difference that the psychoanalytical approach of obesity offers in regard to the medical view, as it does not intend to normalize the bodies in conformity to an adequate weight. This proposal brings the issue of the drive s circuit to discussion, which due to its matrix of alterity, sets the drive s object as something connected to an originary lack that, at the same time, constitutes the desire as dissatisfied. Considering that the psychoanalytical technique that Freud proposed is structured around the lack that is established by the end of the Oedipus complex, and that castration anxiety has a place of priority as the engine of the treatment, obesity figures as a problem since food appears in the place of the lost object and also gives it the consistence to which the obese remains attached. To think about how psychoanalysis can receive the demand of these obese patients and what theoretical and clinical resources can be used in their treatments, it is established a parallel with others problems, like drug addiction and bulimia. Finally, it is proposed that the psychoanalytic treatment intends to offer a field of subjectivation that allows anxiety to emerge, not only related to the body and its excesses, but making the construction of symbolic resources necessary to the elaboration of the drive s real possible. For such thing the importance of the establishment of the transferencial relationship, the presence of the analyst and the preliminary interviews - which in these cases constitute a long previous task is emphasized.