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12 - Phenomenology of Corporeality (and Spatiality) in Anorexia Nervosa with a Reference to the Problem of Its Temporality

from Part III - Borderline Personality and Eating Disorders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2020

By
Otto Doerr-Zegers  and
Héctor Pelegrina-Cetran
Edited by
Christian Tewes  and
Giovanni Stanghellini
Christian Tewes
Affiliation:
Heidelberg University Hospital
Giovanni Stanghellini
Affiliation:
Chieti University
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Summary

Three fundamental anthropologic dimensions are severely disturbed in anorexia nervosa: corporeality, spatiality and temporality. These dimensions constitute an existential form of anorexia which actualizes a disembodied subject in a purely physical world exhibiting rationalistic thoughts. We will not separate corporeality and spatiality, but indeed temporality. In the chapter we describe the most prominent characteristics.

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PhenomenologyPsychopathologyDepressionAffectivityAffordancesNarrativeTemporalityEnactivismHusserl
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Time and Body
Phenomenological and Psychopathological Approaches
 , pp. 263 - 281
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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