BERG, R. A Freudian analysis of obesity. 2008. 136 f. Dissertation (Master) -Instituto de Psicologia, Universidade de São Paulo, 2008. It is observed nowadays a significant increase in the amount of people suffering from obesity. Although have been highlighted the psychological factors involved in this disturbance food, the majority of the procedures of treatment is done only on the body and the modeling of behavior, without regard the psychological dynamics that operates in such cases. In this

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... context, the present study aimed to examine, from the Freudian referential, as obesity is articulated to the search for an ideal body and linked to the symptoms of food diseases. Thus, it is expected to contribute to the study of metapsychology of obesity, in the field of contemporary psychopathologies related to the body, as well as obtaining subsidies for the psychoanalytic clinic in hospitals. So, when you put in evidence the link between the body, in the view of the Freudian reference, and the notion of the body as part of Medicine, the aims was to shape up tools that helped in the treatment of obese patients, obtaining data to investigate the appearance of new symptoms after more invasive treatments such as bariatric surgery, because the reduction in weight does not prevent their formation. To carry out this search, Freudian texts were examined and its commentators referred to the issue, and then was made a review of the literature.