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Anorexia: A Disease of Doubling

In his excellent paper, Svenaeus describes “the double experience of being plagued and depressed by the anorexia, but still being unable to give it up because it provides the only security, control, and identity that there is to have” (Svenaeus 2013, 88–9). This phrase ‘double experience’ is worth pondering. His analysis highlights the dialectical nature of a disease characterized by doubling, contradiction and paradox. Or paradoxes, we should say—let me enumerate some.