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The skin-ego / Didier Anzieu ; translated by Naomi Segal.
Van Pelt Library BF175.5.E35 A5813 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Anzieu, Didier, author.
- Series:
- History of psychoanalysis series
- Standardized Title:
- Moi-peau. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Ego (Psychology).
- Skin--Psychological aspects.
- Mind and body.
- Psychoanalysis.
- Skin.
- Physical Description:
- xxxviii, 317 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Karnac Books Ltd, 2016.
- Summary:
- In this classic work, the author presents and develops his theory of the importance of 'the Skin-ego'. Just as the skin is wrapped around the body, so the author 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. The author'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.
- Contents:
- Part I Discovery
- Chapter 1 Epistemological preliminaries 3
- Some general principles 3
- The tactile and cutaneous universe 13
- Chapter 2 Four sets of data 23
- Ethological data 24
- Data from the theory of groups 31
- Data from projective testing 33
- Dermatological data 35
- Chapter 3 The notion of a Skin-ego 39
- Mouth-breast and skin-breast 39
- The idea of a Skin-ego 43
- The phantasy of a common skin and its narcissistic and masochistic variants 44
- Chapter 4 The Greek myth of Marsyas 49
- The socio-cultural framework 49
- The first part of the myth 51
- The second part: the eight mythemes 53
- Chapter 5 The psychogenesis of the Skin-ego 59
- The double feedback in the mother-child dyadic system 59
- Differences between cognitive and psychoanalytic points of view 63
- Special features of the Skin-ego as an interface 67
- Two clinical examples 70
- Part II Structure, Functions, Overcoming
- Chapter 6 Two precursors of the theory of the Skin-ego: Freud and Federn 75
- Freud and the topographical structure of the ego 75
- The speech apparatus 76
- The psychical apparatus 78
- The contact-barriers 80
- The Ego as interface 87
- Refinements to the topographical model of the psychical apparatus 91
- Federn: Ego-feelings and feelings of fluctuation in Ego boundaries 94
- Ego feelings 97
- The feeling of the Ego borders 99
- Feelings of fluctuation in Ego boundaries 101
- The repression of Ego states 102
- Chapter 7 The functions of the Skin-ego 103
- The eight functions of the Skin-ego 105
- Attacks against the Skin-ego 114
- Other functions 117
- A case of perverse masochism 118
- Wet wrappings 120
- Three observations 122
- Chapter 8 Disturbances of basic sensori-motor distinctions 123
- On the confusion of respiratory fullness and emptiness 123
- Chapter 9 Impairments of the structure of the Skin-ego in narcissistic personalities and borderline cases 133
- The structural difference between narcissistic personalities and borderline cases 133
- A literary example of a narcissistic personality 137
- The phantasy of the double wall 141
- Disturbances of belief and borderline states 143
- Chapter 10 The double taboo on touching, the condition for overcoming the Skin-ego 149
- A taboo on touching implied in Freud's work 150
- Christ's explicit prohibition 155
- Touch: three problematics 158
- The prohibitions and their four dualities 159
- From the Skin-ego to the thinking ego 164
- Access to intersensoriality and the creation of a common sense 168
- Part III Principal Configurations
- Chapter 11 The wrapping of sound 173
- Hearing and phonation in infants 179
- Freud's thinking on sound 183
- Semiophony 184
- The mirror of sound 186
- Chapter 12 The thermal wrapping 193
- The wrapping of warmth 193
- The wrapping of cold 194
- Chapter 13 The olfactory wrapping 199
- The secretion of aggression through the pores of the skin 199
- Chapter 14 Confusion of qualities of taste 211
- The love of bitterness and confusion between the digestive and respiratory tracts 211
- Chapter 15 The second muscular skin 217
- Esther Bick's discovery 217
- Two short stories by Robert Sheckley 220
- Chapter 16 The wrapping of suffering 225
- Psychoanalysis and pain 225
- Cases of third-degree burns 227
- From the body in abeyance to the body of suffering 231
- Chapter 17 The film of dreams 237
- Dream and its film 237
- Freud's theory of dreams revisited 238
- The wrapping of excitation, the hysterical basis of all neuroses 250
- The neurophysiology of sleep and the diversity of dream material 252
- Chapter 18 Summaries and further observations 257
- Origins of the notions of psychical wrapping and psychical skin 257
- Some points about the theory of psychical wrings (their constitution, development, and changes of form) 263
- Problems of the psychical wrappings 267
- The construction of the psychical wrapping 272.
- Notes:
- "Originally published as Le Moi-peau, © Dunod, Paris, 1995." -- Title page verso.
- "A new translation" -- front cover.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781782201007
- 1782201009
- OCLC:
- 948839723
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