anorexia – Page 5 – Little Bristling Soul

Out of terror at its incompleteness and ravenous need, anorexia constructs a physical sign calculated to manifest disdain for need, for hunger, designed to appear entirely free of all forms of dependency, to appear complete, self-contained

Louise Gluck, from Proofs & Theories, 11

Jana Sterbak, “Vanitas: Flesh Dress for an Albino Anorectic”,1987 Courtesy Walker Art Center

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louise glück, the sensual world

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“The invisible,” Costello writes, “is not a vague presence or a ghostly absence, but a quality formed by our desire for absolutes, which in turn gives contour to the finite world we see and recall”

The anorexic uses starvation and the domination of bodily desires in her search for control, identity and competence, and uses the resulting thinness as the sign that her control is effective.

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