(P/B) THE SKIN-EGO

Παρουσίαση

In this classic work, Didier Anzieu presents and develops his theory of the importance of 'the Skin-ego'. Just as the skin is wrapped around the body, so Anzieu sees the 'Skin-ego' as a psychical wrapping containing, defining and consolidating the subject. From this perspective, the structure and functions of the skin can provide psychoanalysts and general readers with a fertile and practical metaphor.
Anzieu's concept of the Skin-ego is the answer to questions he regards as crucial to contemporary psychoanalysis: questions of topography which were left incomplete by Freud; the analysis of fantasies of the container as of the contained; issues of touch between mothers and babies; extending the concept of prohibitions within an Oedipal framework to those derived from a prohibition on touching; and questions pertaining to the representation of the body and to its psychoanalytic setting.
This new translation of Le Moi-peau is based on the second and last (1995) edition. The translator, Professor Naomi Segal, is Professorial Fellow in French and German Studies at Birkbeck, University of London. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

About the author and translator
Series editor's foreword
Translator's foreword
Introduction
PART I: DISCOVERY
1. Epistemological preliminaries
2. Four sets of data
3. The notion of a Skin-ego
4. The Greek myth of Marsyas
5. The psychogenesis of the Skin-ego
PART II: STRUCTURE, FUNCTIONS, OVERCOMING
6. Two precursors of the theory of the Skin-ego: Freud and Federn
7. The functions of the Skin-ego
8. Disturbances of basic sensori-motor distinctions
9. Impairments of the structure of the Skin-ego in narcissistic personalities and borderline cases
10. The double taboo on touching, the condition for overcoming the Skin-ego
PART III: PRINCIPAL CONFIGURATIONS
11. The wrapping of sound
12. The thermal wrapping
13. The olfactory wrapping
14. Confusion of qualities of taste
15. The second muscular skin
16. The wrapping of suffering
17. The film of dreams
18. Summaries and further observations
Appendix
Table of case studies
References
Index