Uma delicada transição: Adolescência, anorexia e escrita

Abstract

In this article we discuss the clinical case of a teenage girl, Nina, with anorexia. Based on psychoanalysis, we look at this case from three perspectives. First, given the lack of a consistent symbolic organizing to address the real of sex, Nina tried to approach it through imaginary inflation. Secondly, the availability of analytic listening produced the response of symbolic production and remission of anorexia. Finally, persistent vomiting indicated something of the real that was inassimilable through words. © 2009 Associação Universitária de Pesquisa em Psicopatologia Fundamental/ University Association for Research in Fundamental Psychopathology.