Skin, culture and psychoanalysis / edited by Sheila L. Cavanagh, Angela Failler, and Rachel Alpha Johnston Hurst.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cavanagh, Sheila L. (Sheila Lynn), 1969-

Failler, Angela, 1973-

Hurst, Rachel Alpha Johnston, 1977-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human skin color--Social aspects.

Tattooing--Social aspects.

Skin--Social aspects.

Psychoanalysis.

Skin.

Tattooing.

Human skin color.

Physical Description:

xi, 277 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Summary:

Skin, Culture and Psychoanalysis queries the intersection of cultural and psychical meanings of skin in the contemporary moment as skin responds to new (and old) pressures and articulations. A variety of topics are herein addressed including the symbolic dominance of white skin, racialization, tattooing, cosmetic surgery, fabric skins, skin eruptions, second skins, the skin in self-harm and skin as a site of psychic repair. The authors engage an array of objects and approaches from the clinical domain, literary fiction, television, film, video art, photography, fashion design and poetry, in doing so, they highlight the situation of skin as a socially and culturally mediated exterior simultaneously negotiated at the interior or psychical level. This collection locates skin at the center of inquiry, rather than as a jumping-off point from which to explore deeper or thicker issues, which tends to happen when skin is treated synecdochically as a stand-in for the body itself. Here, skin is a cultural object, and a psychical object, in its own right. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 From the Skin Ego to the Psychic Envelope: An Introduction to the Work of Didier Anzieu / Marc Lafrance Lafrance, Marc 16

2 Comedic Skin Eruptions: A Psychoanalytic Reading of Austin Powers / Sheila Kunkle Kunkle, Sheila 45

3 The Surfacing of the Self: The Clothing-Ego / Stella North North, Stella 64

4 The Red Thing: Fabrics and Fetishism in Nella Larsen's Quicksand / Sara Davis Davis, Sara 90

5 Writing Skin: Esthetics and Transcendence in Junichiro Tanizaki's "The Tattooer" / Andrew Hock Soon Ng Ng, Andrew Hock Soon 115

6 The Skin-Textile in Cosmetic Surgery / Rachel Alpha Johnston Hurst Hurst, Rachel Alpha Johnston 141

7 Narrative Skin Repair: Bearing Witness to Mediatized Representations of Self-Harm / Angela Failler Failler, Angela 167

8 Split Skin: Adolescent Cutters and the Other / Erica D. Galioto Galioto, Erica D. 188

9 Disrupting the Skin-Ego: See-Sickness and the Real in The Flagellation of a Virgin / Shawn Thomson Thomson, Shawn 215

10 "White Trash:" Abject Skin in Film Reviews of Monster / Sheila L. Cavanagh Cavanagh, Sheila L. 240.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230365063

023036506X

OCLC:

802691591