The most surprising fact, even harmful to our Western sense of dignity and self-regulation, to be derived from our results is that ‘suffering’, something we experience to be in the most private angle of our intimacy can be a collective affair. Even our way of experimenting suffering of such a kind can be thought as a mediated activity.

We can say ‘not even what I thought to be so intimately o privately mine is mine at all’. Even if this seems absurd in the eyes of a bio-psycho-social model of psychopathology, anorexics learn to be, learn to perceive themselves as or become anorexics participating and sharing unstable devices that allow them to form a group, to create and constantly enact and perform a particular identity. As an example of this strange behaviour to our eyes, we can cite this: in some of the web pages we found messages of girls who asked what they had to do to be anorexics. Implicit in this is that they were probably asking, what they had to say, too (even to ‘themselves’!).

Our purpose in this brief paper is to meditate, using these stories as a pretext, on our heterogeneous features, our hybrid existence: the question is, to what extent, and exaggerating the metaphor, are we beings made out of other not-so-human beings pieces, heteropoietic entities? To what extent are we Frankenstein monsters, designed to fit in the delicate and Given the fact that artefact mediation has been considered by some the touchstone of the process of evolution of the Great Apes; considering that language, in particular, as an artefact has been thought to be by many the threshold of humanity we would like to meditate on what makes us human and the diverse functions of language in the stabilization of subjectivity and identity in so-called Modern World.

 

 

 

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