A anorexia na clínica contemporânea: considerações sobre o sintoma

Abstract

Este artigo aborda a especificidade do sintoma na psicanálise a partir da análise de um caso clínico sobre anorexia. Delimitam-se aspectos do caso que retratam a clínica do mal-estar contemporâneo a partir dos seguintes temas-eixo: anorexia e adolescência; recusa alimentar; a relação com o pai; e, psicanálise e medicina. Levando-se em consideração tais aspectos, destaca-se a anorexia como sintoma analítico a depender da constituição de uma demanda de análise e da relação transferencial.

Paternity and Parenting in the Context of Eating Disorders: An Integrative Literature Review

“…The fathers of that study showed a preference for more solitary practices. This finding is also supported by the study by Santos and Zanotti (2016), which portrays the absence of the father in the patient's family life and proves that this distancing has a relationship with the psychopathological symptoms.…”

“…However, three studies are coauthored by American researchers, in collaboration with authors from Australia, Canada and Israel, so that the country has participation in four of the 23 articles analyzed, followed by Spain (three), Israel (two), Poland (two), Austria, China and Turkey, with one study each. Finally, Brazil is the only South American country included in the list of country of origin of publications, with one study (Santos & Zanotti, 2016).…”

“…In view of what was observed in the analysis of the studies that make up the corpus of this review, it appears that the theme of the decay of the paternal function is, to some extent, related to the previous theme, because it concerns the distancing of the paternal figure from the family care and management nucleus, as well as a lack of credibility promoted by the father's disability in the exercise of his paternal function. Santos and Zanotti (2016) point out the father's difficulty in placing himself between the mother and the daughter, and to interpose the influence of his authority as a resource that outlines the psychic separation between the two, which marks the decay of the paternal image in the cultural context to which the case analyzed in the study is inserted. Reinforcing this observation, Ma (2015) points out the passivity and impotence of the fathers, denoting the fragility of their psychic constitution and the feeling of inferiority that they experience before the family.…”