Abstract
Abstract: This study aims primarily to reflect on the role of symbiotic illusion in the construction of female identity in women with eating disorders (ED), using premises from psychoanalytic psychosomatics. Considering ED as psychopathologies related to the affective economy, Oedipal relations play crucial role in the process of identity constitution. Mother-daughter relationships in ED are shaped in the molds of symbiotic illusion, with weak father figures. We presented a case study to briefly illustrate the theoretical framework. The omissive posture of a father to interdict the symbiotic relation leads daughters to find themselves unable to libidinally invest in other objects.
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Resumo: Ilusão simbiótica e construção da identidade feminina nos transtornos alimentares: perspectiva da psicossomática psicanalítica
Through psychoanalytic perspective, Eating disorders (ED) pose questioning regarding: the pre-Oedipical phase, in which mother and daughter seem to be affixed; daughter’s process of individuation and subsequent development of psychosexuality and access to genitality – which requires separation from parental figures; issues concerning the parental couple, who arise in the literature as emotionally distant (LEONIDAS; SANTOS, 2013; VALDANHA et al, 2014), making way for mothers to take their children as narcissistic extensions of themselves, aiming to overcome possible existential voids
Based on these new premises, illnesses may be comprehended beyond the organic approach as somatic responses to states of emotional tension generated by mental processes that were not symbolized
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Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP), processo número 2012/23854-2, e Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq), bolsa de Produtividade em Pesquisa PQ-1A. Todo o conteúdo deste periódico, exceto onde estiver identificado, está licenciado sob uma licença Creative Commons (cc by 4.0). Symbiotic illusion and female identity construction in eating disorders: a psychoanalytical psychosomatics’ perspective
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