TY - JOUR A1 - Rudge, Ana Maria A1 - Fuks, Betty T1 - The implication of the sadistic superego in anorexia T2 - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 24 (No. 1, 2016), pp. 12-18. N2 - Based on our clinical experience with anorexia, we propose to distinguish two paradoxical aspects of this disorder. On the one hand, anorexia may serve as a shield and support to open up a space for subjectivity, promoting a separation from the mother. Eros is responsible for this defense of subjectivity and of the assumption of one's own wish. But the anorexic individual may, on the other hand, be subjected to the death drive and to the voice of a sadistic and ferocious superego that demands immediate obedience. The death drive, present in different combinations with Eros, is an obstacle to the work of the psychoanalyst. Y1 - 2016 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-Fromm/frontdoor/index/index/docId/30415 ER -