“El enemigo puede ser el propio cuerpo”: Patricia Karpel analizó en RDEsc el conflicto detrás de la anorexia

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Patricia Karpel, a psychoanalyst, analyzed anorexia by focusing on the conflict where the body becomes the enemy. She posits that this stems from a difficulty in accepting the self, particularly during adolescence when physical changes cause a sense of corporal strangeness. If this unfamiliarity is not assimilated, it can turn into a rejection that risks physical integrity. Karpel linked this destructive impulse to the idea of a non-violent suicide, emphasizing that anorexia is a deadly drive related to the destruction of the body.