RESSIGNIFICANDO O COMER: CONSIDERAÇÕES PSICANALÍTICAS SOBRE A OBESIDADE

Abstract

The present work aims to contribute to the discussions about how the redefinition of eating can facilitate the confrontation of obesity, from a psychoanalytic perspective. In addition, it is also interested in tracing the sociocultural influences that contribute to this problem, which factors are present in the development of a conflicting relationship between the subject and food and what are the psychic conditions necessary to rebuild this relationship. Using as a method a review of narrative literature, especially works based on the works of Freud and Lacan. As a result, the multiple symbols that food has, together with the influence of the redefinition of the act of eating as a positive factor in the fight against obesity, were found.