[The post-modern society as a crisis of the commensality]

From the feeding of overabundance to the clinic of the nourishing disorders' field, there's a change of sign in the present capitalist society here. Now, it tries to show how happen the passage to necessity/hunger-necessity of nutrition to the con-vivial (live with others) metaphor, constituent of human being. The route of human con-vivium, like to be and to live with others, goes from the maternal feeding to the dining habit of the father and the others. However, when the food is within reach of all, the control capacity is usually a distinction sign. It is the twilight of the obesity as sign of power. But when this control gets a dietetic and gymnastic virtuosity, the body pays tribute to itself within the corporal values system and in accordance with the social "Other", that is, with a "culture of the image".