2017
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Christine Durif-Bruckert, « « On devient ce que l’on mange » : les enjeux identitaires de l’incorporation », Revue française d'éthique appliquée, ID : 10670/1.mbfonl
Based on its main conceptual components, the incorporation process raises key questions about the importance of the incorporated type of food. The food incorporation will determine the development of one’s otherness, self-identity, as well as one’s social, cultural and environmental inclusion. The consequences of such a process are worth being evaluated from physio-logical, imaginary and symbolic perspectives. They are at the heart of “one’s great leap into one’s ownership”, according to Bachelard’s saying. Taking possession of one’s self is as vital as it is perilous. It is also a source of primordial apprehensions, destabilisations and true or imagined threats enhanced by collective fears, sanitary scandals and food issues debated on the streets. Way beyond the questions of nutrition and biology, this article will study in depth the core meaning of eating, the power and issues of food incorporation on one’s identity, as well as the extent and changes of the regulation (and deregulation) of the social, cultural and political food intake (crisis).