Subjective positions in anorexia

Abstract

The purpose of this article is, in first place, to locate the difference between the anorexic symptom and an anorexic position (from the study of the Freudian case of Emmy von N.); then, in a second moment, we will return to this position to clarify the dialectic that - based on a strategy to maintain the desire - links it with the Other; in the third section, we will specify the Lacanian definition of subjective position to delimit a version of anorexic position based on its relationship with enjoyment, knowledge and sex articulated through subjective division.