mOther
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Against Understanding, Volume 1: Commentary and Critique in a Lacanian Key · Bruce Fink · p.78
*Example of an Anorexic*
Theoretical move: Fink uses an anorexic case to demonstrate how the fundamental fantasy can be constituted as a death drive when the mOther's demand displaces the place of the objet petit a, and how the intertwining of demand, desire, and drive produces a lethal oscillation between starvation and compulsive bingeing — with separation as the stakes of the anorexic symptom.
Taking her mOther's demand as the object in her fantasy