The obsession: reflections on the tyranny of slenderness

Author:

Chernin, Kim

Place of Publication:

New York

Publisher:

Harper Colophon Books

Publication Date:

1982

ISBN / SBN / ISSN:

0-06-090967-6

Media Type:

Print (Non-Serial)

Media Sub-type:

Book

LoC Call Number:

RM 222.2 .C47 1981

Accession Number:

001144

Keyword Subject Headings:

Weight loss- Psychological aspects
Weight loss - Social aspects

“Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is hidden, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer. … When we think of the unending growth and decay of life and civilizations, we cannot escape the impression of absolute nullity. Yet I have never lost a sense of something that lives and endures underneath the eternal flux. What we see is the blossom, which passes. The rhizome remains.”

Memories, Dreams, Reflections, page 4