ABSTRACT
The connection between the three dimensions: bulimia, anxiety, and the demand of the Other has been clearly elaborated by Maria Cristina Aguirre, both in theory and through clinical examples. In her book Figures of Lightness, Gabriella Ripa suggests that there has been a passage from the structure of the hysteric—which intrigued Freud—to the clinical practice of anorexia. The rise of anorexia itself suggests a structural change with regards to our civilization. Massimo Recalcati suggests, in light of Lacan, that the clinic of the so-called new forms of the symptom—drug addiction, anorexia, depression—makes evident the incidence of a closed, untriggered, or compensated psychosis. Through these modalities the subject defers, maintains him or herself, on this side of the hole of psychosis without falling into it. Maria Cristina Aguirre cites Recalcati as saying that the bulimic blames the Other as being a cause of her sorrow, transforming herself into a living skeleton in order to castigate and make the Other pay.
