Abstract
Abstract This article aims to understand the hyperphagic experience in the obesity of patients in the French and Brazilian contexts. Using the critical phenomenological method, twenty subjects were interviewed in health services in Paris and in Fortaleza. We note an objectification and expropriation of the body often experienced in the hyperphagic experience in obesity. We highlight the emphasis on health in the French context and on form and aesthetics in the Brazilian context. In Fortaleza, there seems to be a more evidenced discrimination in relation to obesity and a pathological discourse, whereas in Paris this pathologization is viewed from a critical position regarding the treatments. We conclude that the hyperphagic experience in obesity reveals a subject who is often lost in his/her way of being and having a body, and that clinical work must involve the re-appropriation of this body and the recovery of the condition of the autonomous subject.
Highlights
This article aims to understand the hyperphagic experience in the obesity of patients in the French and Brazilian contexts
The analysis of interview data conducted in Paris and Fortaleza allowed us to establish certain phenomenological categories about being obese and the hyperphagic experience
The Sense of Eating in the Hyperphagic Experience of Obesity, we can see how the act of eating presents many meanings beyond its natural and everyday sense and we find an intersubjective way
Summary
This article aims to understand the hyperphagic experience in the obesity of patients in the French and Brazilian contexts. Using the critical phenomenological method, twenty subjects were interviewed in health services in Paris and in Fortaleza. In Fortaleza, there seems to be a more evidenced discrimination in relation to obesity and a pathological discourse, whereas in Paris this pathologization is viewed from a critical position regarding the treatments. Este artigo tem como objetivo compreender a experiência hiperfágica na obesidade de pacientes nos contextos francês e brasileiro. São evidenciadas a objetificação e a desapropriação do corpo frequentemente vividas na experiência hiperfágica na obesidade. Em Fortaleza parece haver uma discriminação em relação à obesidade mais evidenciada e um discurso em direção à patologização dessa experiência, enquanto que em Paris essa patologização é revestida por uma posição crítica em relação aos tratamentos. Conclui-se que a experiência hiperfágica na obesidade revela um sujeito, muitas vezes, perdido em seu modo de ser e de ter um corpo e que o trabalho clínico deve envolver a reapropriação desse corpo e a recuperação de sua condição de sujeito autônomo
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