%0 Journal Article %T Alimentazione: dalla fisiologia all'inconscio. Una prospettiva neuroscientifica accompagnata da immagini letterarie %J - %D 2017 %R http://dx.doi.org/10.13135/2281-6658/1996 %X Eating, quintessence of biopsychosocial behavior, is determined by multiple factors tied to different motivational systems. Therefore, a multiplicity of intertwined perspectives is necessary and psychiatry, ˇ°frontier scienceˇ±, is particularly suitable to study human eating, taking also into account other cultural and scientific approaches. As a result of the recent socio-cultural transformations the relationship with food assumed specific pathological features, unknown in the past, ranging from extreme appetite to inflexible refusal to eat. Creating a path from physiology to the unconscious, reward systems, relational meanings of eating, and the unconscious symbol of food will be discussed %U http://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/COSMO/article/view/1996