A rejection guaranteeing desire

Abstract

In the present work we investigate the function of anorexia as a guarantor of de- sire, taking for it the developments made by Lacan in Seminars VIII and IX. This choice is due to the special interest it had for our research to examine the refe- rences contained there in relation to the rejection, the Versagung and the body. To order our procedure, we use point coordinates, which echo with the mentions made by Lacan about this symptomatic presentation. They are: a) anorexia as a “disorder” of orality, the differentiation between need-demand-desire; b) the dif- ferences between the love of narcissism and the love of the gift; c) the Versagung, between rejection and frustration; d) the topological immersion as an anorexic passion: going from three dimensions to two; e) some epistemic-clinical effects of the object a in the mirror image as well as the place of the imperative of enjoy- ment. In a final section there are conclusions and further lines of work.