This article is about the film “To the Bones”, the story of an anorexic young girl and the aim is to examine, through this film, the positioning of anorexia according to the pleasure principle and its destination in the context of the original mother-infant relation; the dominating death instincts and the effects of this suffocating force on the psychic envelops, internal and external stimulations, psychic and physical components and their relationship with each other; and the tendency to follow the unmediated and concrete path due to what cannot be symbolized in the neutralization of displeasure, in the psychic state where pervasive desembolization prevails.