The skin-ego : a new translation by Naomi Segal / by Didier Anzieu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anzieu, Didier, author.

Contributor:

Segal, Naomi, translator.

Series:

History of psychoanalysis series.

History of Psychoanalysis Series

Standardized Title:

Moi-peau. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ego (Psychology).

Skin--Psychological aspects.

Skin.

Mind and body.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (357 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, FL : Taylor and Francis, an imprint of Routledge, [2018]

Language Note:

English

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, sothe authorsees 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:

COVER; CONTENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR AND TRANSLATOR; SERIES EDITOR'S FOREWORD; TRANSLATOR'S FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; PART I DISCOVERY; CHAPTER ONE Epistemological preliminaries; CHAPTER TWO Four sets of data; CHAPTER THREE The notion of a Skin-ego; CHAPTER FOUR The Greek myth of Marsyas; CHAPTER FIVE The psychogenesis of the Skin-ego; PART II STRUCTURE, FUNCTIONS, OVERCOMING; CHAPTER SIX Two precursors of the theory of the Skin-ego: Freud and Federn; CHAPTER SEVEN The functions of the Skin-ego; CHAPTER EIGHT Disturbances of basic sensori-motor distinctions

CHAPTER NINE Impairments of the structure of the Skin-ego in narcissistic personalities and borderline casesCHAPTER TEN The double taboo on touching, the condition for overcoming the Skin-ego; PART III PRINCIPAL CONFIGURATIONS; CHAPTER ELEVEN The wrapping of sound; CHAPTER TWELVE The thermal wrapping; CHAPTER THIRTEEN The olfactory wrapping; CHAPTER FOURTEEN Confusion of qualities of taste; CHAPTER FIFTEEN The second muscular skin; CHAPTER SIXTEEN The wrapping of suffering; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN The film of dreams; CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Summaries and further observations

APPENDIX Chapter Eighteen from 1985 editionTABLE OF CASE STUDIES; REFERENCES; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 25, 2016).

ISBN:

0-429-92220-5

0-429-90797-4

0-429-48320-1

1-78241-357-X

9780429483202

OCLC:

1048769561