304 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
302 Pages
by
Routledge
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Skin in Psychoanalysis is an important theoretical contribution, revising several authors starting with Freud in whose writing we can now discover multiple direct or indirect references to the skin. It adopts a decidedly complex point of view regarding the skin here: the skin as source, the skin as object, the skin as protection and as a way of entrance, as contact and as contagion, the skin... Read more
Preface -- Introduction -- The skin in the work of Freud -- Didier Anzieu's Ego-skin -- Contributions by other psychoanalysts and psychiatrists to the subject of skin and psychoanalysis -- The skin and the levels of symbolisation: from the Ego-skin to the thinking-Ego -- “It works for me”: symbolic efficacy and the placebo effect -- Reflections on attachment -- The case of Mr Quirón -- Body image and the psychosomatic patterns of childhood. Medical publicity regarding the skin -- Pathomimias: self-inflicted lesions on the skin -- Franz Kafka's In the Penal Colony: Superego and the skin -- The relationship between what the psychoanalyst hears and what the dermatologist sees -- Psoriasis: Father, don't you see I'm burning? (The skin and the gaze)
Biography
Ulnik, Jorge
