Manger rien

Abstract

This paper has the purpose of differentiating anorexia as an epiphenomenon of any given clinical structure, of anorexia vera. This singular structure would depend of an arrest in the fantasmatic constitution at its first - narcissistic - stage of its building up. In this unique clinical condition, the only means of the subject to keep the Other's desire standing (therefore, what the latter lacks) would consist of eating nothing, showing to the Other, who doesn't want to know anything at all about the object, in a picture related to the acting out, its slow and ominous process of turning into a corpse the subject becoming the nothing - rien - itself before the Other's gaze. It's intended to differentiate between rien, object «a» as such, and the object «a» to be cornered in the interlaces of the swarm of pulsional representatives.