ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that in Rachel's family there is collusion against knowledge concerning differentiation and particularity, and Rachel uses her anorexia to sabotage this collusion. Rachel was the one who used to go shopping and bake the special halla bread for the Sabbath. She used to be a "partner" to her mother in long walks and a "partner" to her father. Rachel refuses to ignore subjective knowledge. Rachel is also a sister, and her anorexia distinguishes the boundary between herself and her sister. She tries to awaken in her family the desire for knowledge about death as well as about birth—birth of a subject who is also a twin—before it is too late. The problem with Rachel is that she eats during meals, but not between meals. Her mother views Rachel as a partner to the ongoing Jewish history: to the Holocaust—since the entire family of the maternal grandfather was exterminated—and to the State of Israel gaining independence.
