期刊全稱(chēng) | Anorexia Nervosa and Other Dyscontrol Syndromes | 影響因子2023 | E. L. Edelstein | 視頻video | http://file.papertrans.cn/159/158048/158048.mp4 | 圖書(shū)封面 |  | 影響因子 | What is that which gleams through me and smites my heart without wounding it? I am both a-shudder and a-glow. St. Augustine It is wonder and awe that I feel in view of the individual‘s power to create self-therapeutic devices. This book is the saga of these young in- dividuals, who change and recreate the shape and dimensions of their bodies in a quest to achieve and finally demonstrate autonomy. Ironically, it seems that they can go on living thanks to their exces- sive behavior, their hunger, and their deviances. They exhibit an ex- treme polarity, an "either-or": the thrill of excesses, the joy of giving in to pleasure, versus masochistic enjoyment and pride curbing, procras- tinating and mastering these impulses almost to the absolute by simple force of effort and sublimatory strength. Somewhat alien to the medi- cal profession, these maladies are self-induced, and only make sense if their symbolism is recognized and understood using a hermeneutic ap- proach. It aptly reflects their interaction with other objects, both human and nonhuman. The anorectic girl, to whom the book is specifically devoted, rejects any human bond in a masochistic way and also denies that her own body i | Pindex | Book 1989 |
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