Não existe gosto melhor do que o gosto de ser magra : o controle nos blogs pró-anorexia e pró-bulimia

Abstract

The present study aims to analyze elements of the discourses of individuals suffering from eating disorders that elucidate the various aspects related to control, an important element in the development and maintenance of such conditions. For this, the virtual space of pro-ana and pro-mia blogs was used as a place of access to these discourses. The aim is to analyze how biomedical discourse is appropriate in blogs and to base very specific control practices, absorbing devices that would initially be aimed at curing these symptoms. In addition, we sought to gather the highlighted elements from the discourses of the blogs that collaborate to rethink the therapeutic approach of eating disorders. For this, virtual ethnography was used as a theoretical-methodological reference for research and analysis and was complemented by Discourse Analysis, aiming to compose an apparatus that could accurately and comprehensively capture the complexity of the object of study. Through the course described, we could verify that the suffering resulting from the incessant search for the lean body imprisons anas and mias in a way of living that values control, guilt and self-flagellation that can only be maintained with the support of others who share Of the same worldview. The virtual space of pro-ana / mia blogs makes it possible to construct an identity that allows anas and mias to place themselves in the world with the singularity characteristic of these individuals, at the same time that they function as a privileged place for learning and exercising control over themselves And on the other. In order to substantiate body control behaviors, the anas and mias appropriate a series of naturalized practices reinforced by medical discourse and by those who preach "healthy lifestyle habits." Considering that the practices narrated in the pro-ana / mia blogs represent an exacerbation of those employed in the current self-care, we question whether it is possible to sustain for a long time a permanently controlled and self-managed body and to what extent we use in the treatment of these frames, strategies Which may intensify the symptoms presented, such as those that reinforce control over food and the body