The implication of the sadistic superego in anorexia

AuthorsAna Maria Rudge, PhD in clinical psychology, is a full member of the Sociedade de Psicanálise Iracy Doyle (a member society of the International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies); associate professor at the department of psychology of the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio); professor at the graduate program of the University Veiga de Almeida; researcher at the National Council of Technological and Scientific Development (CNPq); researcher and founding member of the University Association for Research in Fundamental Psychopathology; editor of Tempo Psicanalítico, a psychoanalysis journal sponsored by the Sociedade de Psicanálise Iracy Doyle; and author of Pulsão e linguagem (Zahar, 1998) and Trauma (Zahar, 2009).
Correspondence: Ana Maria Rudge, Rua Major Rubens Vaz, 514 ap 902, Gávea, 22470-070 Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Tel: +55 21 25514268. E-mail:

Betty Fuks, PhD in communication and culture, is a psychoanalyst; professor on the graduate program on psychoanalysis, health and society at the Veiga de Almeida University (UVA); member of the National Council of Technological and Scientific Development (CNPq); researcher with the University Association of Fundamental Psychopathology; editor of the online journal Trivium: Interdisciplinary Studies; and author of Freud e a judeidade, a vocação do exílio (Zahar, 2000), Freud e a cultura (3nd edn, Zahar, 2007), and Freud and the invention of Jewishness (Agentour, 2008).