Psychoanalytic approach features in studies of the phenomenon of food

Psychoanalytic tradition of study of food as a primary form of communication of a person and the worldis represented in the researches of M. Klein, D. Frankl, F. Perls - in their works we can see evolution of the psychoanalytic tradition ofstudy of food experience of a person - from the analysis of the primary food experience in the relationship mother-baby to the idea ofmental metabolism, which has structural similarity with food metabolism. F. Perls and D. Frankl articulated the communicative conceptof food experience, according to which the identity of a person is formed and his/her existential choice is constructed, too. The mainpsychoanalytic idea is that food experience is passed through the human positive / negative energy of libido - that is encounter with theworld as Others in the primary act of food awakens ones own libidinal energy of an individual and serves as a stimulus to personaldevelopment. Psychoanalysis insists that the underlying constructs of interaction with the world are formed in early childhood, are basedon the primary food reactions, and are projected to all other forms of its communications. The theory of assimilation and introjection ofthe authority is the most important discovery of F. Perls. Standards to ensure the quality of physical and mental metabolism areassimilation. At the level of introjection an embedded object maintains without any processing. Normal personal growth always impliesa critical attitude toward any objects from the surrounding world, a molar, rather aggressive attitude towards them, and as a result - theirassimilation. While introduction of any values in the consciousness of a person occurs when a person forms ability to introjecton andinability to assimilation. Therefore, a totalitarian society has a special food culture - when the level of the body inculcates the habit ofintrojection of the external object in the form of food, the habit, which is extrapolated to other areas of life, including the sphere ofconsciousness. Then mental metabolism is also disturbed, and the person is ready to introjection what is suitable for a totalitarian power.Therefore, a totalitarian society cannot be an affluent society - in particular, the culture of food of a totalitarian society must havedefective nature and must be accompanied by repressive nutritional practices.

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