Bordo then goes on to discuss “axes of continuity.” There are three axes: “the dualist axis, the control axis and the gender/power axis”(4). These …show more content…
These two realms are the bodily and physical on one side and the mental and spiritual on the other side. This connects to anorexia because a person with anorexia sees their body as alien, as a limitation, and as their enemy. Bordo connects this back to Plato, Descartes, and Augustine who all also saw their bodies in this light. These famous philosophers where trying to gain control over the lusts of their bodies. These lusts included drinking and sexual desires. For people with anorexia the lust is hunger. Just as the philosophers wanted to go without indulging in the lusts of the body people with anorexia want to be able to live with having to eat. Both groups fear the lust and fear not being able to stop indulging in it if they start. In being thin people with anorexia feel as though they have beat their