dc.contributor.author | Dickson, Andrew Gordon | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-06-20T21:44:46Z | |
dc.date.available | 2012-06-20T21:44:46Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2011 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10179/3504 | |
dc.description | 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. | en |
dc.description.abstract | 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. | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Massey University | en_US |
dc.rights | The Author | en_US |
dc.subject | Weight loss industry | en |
dc.subject | Weight loss anxiety | en |
dc.subject | Body image | en |
dc.title | 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 | en |
dc.type | Thesis | en |
thesis.degree.discipline | Organisation Studies | en |
thesis.degree.grantor | Massey University | en |
thesis.degree.level | Doctoral | en |
thesis.degree.name | Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) | en |