Understanding Contemporary Diet Culture through the Lens of Lacanian Psychoanalytic Theory: Eating the...

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Bethany Morris (Point Park University, USA)

Understanding Contemporary Diet Culture through the Lens of Lacanian Psychoanalytic Theory

Eating the Lack

Bethany Morris (Point Park University, USA)

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Routledge
06 February 2024

Food & society; Sociology: customs & traditions; Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology); Medical sociology; Psychotherapy

Series: Explorations in Mental Health

This book offers a close analysis of the relationship between diets and identity in modern Western culture through the examination of popular texts including blogs, diet books, and websites.

The relationship between consumerism and identity has been explored by scholars for decades now, but less has been said about how food and eating behaviors have been wrapped up in this relationship. Using Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, chapters investigate how diets and eating are used as a means to navigate individuals’ complex, unconscious desires and conflicts, and illustrate how diet and advertising industries use this to capitalize on the anxieties of the modern subject. The text’s psychoanalytic approach offers rare insight into the unconscious desires that dictate individuals’ choices around diets and lifestyle. By situating anxiety as the tension between jouissance and desire, the book promotes further understanding of individuals’ subjective and complex relationships with food.

Through an understanding of the subject and symptoms from a psychoanalytic perspective, we can begin to think differently about the ways we come to eating and dieting. This book will be useful for scholars and postgraduate students studying Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, consumer psychology, mental health, the sociology of culture, and social and cultural anthropology.

By: Bethany Morris (Point Park University USA)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 439g
ISBN: 9781032110417
ISBN 10: 1032110414
Series: Explorations in Mental Health
Pages: 140
Publication Date: 06 February 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Chapter 1 – Eating the Lack Chapter 2 – Family Meals Chapter 3 – Comfort Food Chapter 4 – Diets as a Symptom Chapter 5 – Jouissance Is in The Carbs Chapter 6 – Disordered Eating Chapter 7 – Circumventing the Real: Detoxes And Cleanses Chapter 8 – A Diet of Lack

Bethany Morris is a professor at Point Park University in Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

Reviews for Understanding Contemporary Diet Culture through the Lens of Lacanian Psychoanalytic Theory: Eating the Lack

“What you put in your mouth, how you put it in your mouth, and indeed what you do not put in your mouth, informs us of the individual’s struggle to situate him or herself within a particular social and cultural context. Bethany Morris’ book offers readers a truly unique vantage point into American dieting behaviours from a Lacanian perspective. The Lacanian perspective is absolutely essential for understanding contemporary American diet culture today. This is a valuable resource and will leave all readers with more than enough to chew on.” Duane Rousselle, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Nipissing University, Canada