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is not a 'not eating', but rather it is an 'eating nothing'.

According to Lacan (1997), 'mental anorexia is not a not eating, but a eating nothing. I insist: this means eating nothing. herefore, in Lacan's analysis, nothing is promoted to the status of object, which, in this case, is decisive for the destiny of subjectivation. . . . In that same text, Lacan describes how, through this election of the object nothing (rien), children invert the relation of dependence to their mother. By refusing food, they get the power to resist to the intrusive demands of the Other and transform their mother into someone who depends on them, and no longer the contrary: 'Here, they invert their dependence relationship and, by this means, take control of the avid omnipotence of making them live, them who depend on their mother. From then on, it is her who depends on their desire, her who is at their mercy, at the mercy of the manifestations of their whims, at the mercy of their omnipotence.' (p. 187)

is exhibiting the alluring slimness of a skeleton, like the prose style of a minimalist writer.

Exhibiting the alluring slimness of a skeleton, like the prose style of a minimalist writer.

anorexia, n.Definitions

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