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DOI 10.33234/SSR.14.2
Elena A. Semenova
Institute of Art Education and Cultural Studies of the Russian Academy of Education
ABSTRACT
The paper continues the author’s research series in the field of women’s eating disorders. The focus of this work is on cases of anorexia
nervosa, provoked by the desire of the individual to identify himself with the ideal body image, in which the thanatological intention is clearly traced. The destructive impact of an ideal aesthetic image on a person with these features of artistic perception is considered on the example of biographical fiction portraits, stories, novels of teenage girls and young womens suffering from anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa. The author examines the manifesto of anorexia “I don’t want to have a doll — I want to be a doll” in the framework of a social semiotic concept. The author sees this phenomenon as interdisciplinary problem that lies on the border of art, psychopathology and thanatology philosophy. The methodological basis of the research is the art semiotic concepts, notion “celebrity anorexia” by E. Burke, the theory of performance by E. Fischer-Lichte, the concept “an aesthetic object” of M.M. Bakhtin.
KEYWORDS: anorexia nervosa, thanatology, semiotics, art.