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Anorexia: Between Desire for Recognition and the Death Drive

Domenico Cosenza, Ph.D.

Albany Senior Center 846 Masonic Avenue, Albany, California, United States

In this lecture we will address the enigma of mental anorexia from the perspective of psychoanalysis. From the beginning, Freud perceived in this syndrome, which predominantly affects young women from puberty onward, two heterogeneous and irreducible structural sides of its manifestation: the hysterical and the melancholic declination. In the hysterical version, a dynamic of anorexia […]