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    The other side of weight loss : a Lacanian autoethnography of weight-anxiety : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Organisation Studies at Massey University, Manawatu, New Zealand

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    This thesis critically re-thinks the organisation of the weight loss industry using a psychoanalytic framework derived from the work of Jacques Lacan, including his discourse theory. Further, I develop critical methodology by focusing on my own experiences and culture. I do this by gathering and analysing autoethnographic data. The main findings of this thesis occur in three broad topic areas. First I re-conceptualise the unconscious processes of the weight-loss subject and subsequently re-focus on the weight loss industry’s unconscious target: anxiety. Second I re-think the gender of the weightanxious subject, moving past biology and hegemony to think psychoanalytically about those subjects who identify as weight-anxious. Third I tackle the ethics of the wider weight loss industry, critically analysing its capitalistic focus and suggesting instead an ethics based on the desire of the weight-anxious subject. Finally I attempt to look at my thesis in reflection, by concluding in line with Lacan’s four discourses, finishing as the psychoanalyst might by placing the thesis on the couch.
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    2011
    Author
    Dickson, Andrew Gordon
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    Content removed due to copyright restrictions: Dickson, A. (2011). The jouissance of the lard(er): gender, desire and anxiety in the weight-loss industry. Culture and organization, 17(4), 313-328.
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