The Grace of my Perfect Skeleton: An Autoethnographic Analysis of the Anorexic Body

The psychiatric realm as well as social scientists are trying to understand and
give insights to what is going on in the mind of a person, who is suffering from
the diagnosis anorexia nervosa. However, for various reasons, the voices of the
anorexic subject are usually discarded or misunderstood, which seems paradoxical, since drowning their voices have usually lead them to speak through their
bodies in the first place. This essay provides a nuanced account of the suffering
from anorexia from the perspective of an embodied experience with the disorder and reveal a paradoxical construction, a bloc of becoming that produces a
very specific becoming. Through the thoughts of Deleuze, this article presents
a first-person encounter of anorexia as a protest at three planes; on the level of
the body, on the level of the closest intersubjective assemblage and on the level
of culture and context.