Anorexia Amoris
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Against Understanding, Volume 1: Commentary and Critique in a Lacanian Key · Bruce Fink · p.227
*Anorexia Amoris*
Theoretical move: Fink argues that anorexia (in food and in love) structurally demonstrates the primacy of desire over demand and over satisfaction itself: by refusing the object that would fill need/demand, the anorexic subject opens a space for desire, and this logic — extended to neurotic self-sabotage and to hysteria — shows that desire is constitutively oriented away from satisfaction rather than toward it.
Such people can perhaps be viewed as 'anorexic in matters of love'… if their partners manifest love or desire for them, they run the other way. They thrive only in relationships in which they are always in doubt.