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V. 67 N. 4 (2018)
https://doi.org/10.4081/mem.2018.550
Etica ed estetica per l'anoressia / Ethics and aesthetics for anorexia
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Ricevuto: 30 ottobre 2018
Accettato: 30 ottobre 2018
Pubblicato: 30 ottobre 2018
Accettato: 30 ottobre 2018
Pubblicato: 30 ottobre 2018
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Anorexia nervosa risks being misunderstood by labelling it merely as a neurobiological disorder or by tackling it only with behavioral advice, in order to rapidly achieve some weight gain. On the contrary, a phenomenological approach recognizes in an eating disorder also an ethical strategy of liberation, although it may well be risky and full of contradictions. This article indicates three ethical and aesthetic dimensions of this dangerous transformation of self-image. Anorexia sculpts the body in dissonant forms, in the way of a body artist; it writes in the flesh a suffering story in the light of an affective myth, which guides the patient towards an ideal of mature development. Finally, sick people feel the same disgust for food that they experience with regard to missed or damaged relationships of which they still desperately hunger for. Through the illness, an attempt is made to manage in a perfectionist way the bodily transformation, but the result is that they come upon a disquieting world of transfigured objects, a world similar to that established by some contemporary art movements. For these reasons, the medical-psychological work carried out on eating disorders requires competence in the field of medical humanities and particularly in the sphere of ethical and aesthetic education.
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Etica ed estetica per l’anoressia / Ethics and aesthetics for anorexia. (2018). Medicina e Morale, 67(4), 417-436. https://doi.org/10.4081/mem.2018.550
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