Figures of Lightness: Anorexia, Bulimia and Psychoanalysis
Figures of Lightness explores the psychoanalytic treatment of eating disorders, using the theories of Freud and Lacan to construct a description of anorexia and bulimia which is based on an awareness of unconscious psychological processes. Gabriella Ripa di Meana proposes an investigative method involving structural linguistics, hermeneutics and formal logic. She analyses the anorectic's and bulimic's sense of identity in Freudian terminology, and examines the combinations of subjection and...
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\ \ \ Acknowledgements\ 6\ \ \ \ Preface\ 9\ \ \ \ Introduction ... From the Four Discourses\ 11\ \ \ 1\ Anorexia and Bulimia: Post-Modern Pathologies\ 26\ \ \ 2\ The Holes in the Mirror\ 45\ \ \ 3\ Image Diseases\ 58\ \ \ 4\ Monstrosity between Perfection and Deformity\ 79\ \ \ 5\ Obsessed with Lightness\ 94\ \ \ 6\ Lear's 'Nothing'\ 104\ \ \ 7\ Beatrice and Susanna: The Impossible Subject\ 121\ \ \ 8\ Bartleby: 'No' as Identity in Excess\ 134\ \ \ 9\ Four Times 'No' for Four Types of Anorexia\ 151\ \ \ 10\ Psychoanalysis or the Light Cure\ 184\ \ \ 11\ Quis Custodiet Custodes?\ 196\ \ \ 12\ To Get Well = To Get Fat?\ 209\ \ \ \ Conclusion ... One More Discourse\ 218\ \ \ \ Bibliography\ 242\ \ \ \ Subject Index\ 255\ \ \ \ Author Index\ 269\ \
\ BooknewsIntegrating famous works of art and literature with clinical studies, di Meana (clinical psychologist, Rome, Italy) explores the psychoanalytic treatment of eating disorders using the theories of Freud and Lacan to uncover unconscious psychological causes. She examines the disorder in the context of family and society, and argues that present classifications are too crude. Distributed by Taylor & Francis. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.\ \
