ANOREXIA Y BULIMIA COMO EXPRESIONES COMPORTAMENTALES DE LA SOCIEDAD OCCIDENTAL

Abstract

To see the human as an entity open to modification through disciplinary practices (docile body), is a point of view that has spread in western society as a form of social restrain of the disciplinary power through massified models interiorized by individuals. This heads to behavioral expresions such as anorexia and bulimia that emerge as an answers to the tension provoked by the internalization of socialcultural norms (the cult to thinness); in a historic process in which power instruments take upon larger spaces.

The explanation to this phenomenon is based in an Anthropology behavior model as a part of the hominization humanizing of human specie: the lossing of biologic barriers that permit the group cohesion of species, has been substituted in the H. sapiens by the social controls; in a ever increasing process of internalization of the social coaction evaluated positively and the negative evaluation of pleasures.