In this chapter, Carol Owens and Stephanie Swales explore liminality as a crucial concept in drive theory and argue that approaching the role and function of the drive requires considering the proxies for satisfaction afforded by late capitalism and contemporary culture. Capitalism’s ceaseless injunction to enjoy, along with post-modern ideals and accompanying technologies and the requirement of interminable reinvention that never satisfy, means subjects are caught in an ideology of ceaseless liminality and consumption. This unceasing consumption results in disturbances of the oral drive indicated in the cultural proliferation of the culinary field and an explosion of eating disorders. Drawing with precision from Freud’s case of Emmy von N., they propose that liminality is not only a site of psychic disorder locatable in disordered bodies and pathological eating/non-eating but that eating disorders are an attempt to offer a solution to the drive’s encounter with the liminal.