Desolation (Desconsol)

Una gestió diferent del dolor | Desconsol
 

Desolation (Desconsol)

 

Desolation (Desconsol)

“Being fat isolates and invalidates a woman. Almost inevitably, the explanations offered for fatness point a finger at the failure of women themselves to control their weight, control their appetites and control their impulses. Women suffering from the problem of compulsive eating endure a double anguish: feeling out of step with the rest of society, and believing that it is all their own fault.

 

The number of woman who have problems with weight and compulsive eating is large and growing. Owing to the emotional distress involved and the fact that the many varied solutions offered to women in the past have not worked, (…) represents a feminist rethinking of traditional psychoanalysis (…) It provides ways for exploring the roots of such problems (…)

 

A feminist perspective to the problem of women’s compulsive eating is essential if we are to move on from the ineffective blame-the-victim approach (…) Fat is a social disease, and fat is a feminist issue. Fat is not about lack of self-control or lack of will power. Fat is about protection, sex, nurturance, strength, boundaries, mothering, substance, assertion and rage. It is a response to the inequality of the sexes”.

 

ORBACH, Susie. Fat is a feminist issue

 

 

Artwork: Desolation (Desconsol). Josep Llimona, 1907. Marble carving.