Description
| Product ID: | 9781782201007 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | The History of Psychoanalysis Series |
| Title: | The Skin-Ego |
| Subtitle: | A New Translation by Naomi Segal |
| Authors: | Author: Didier Anzieu, Naomi Segal |
| Page Count: | 356 |
| Subjects: | Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Karnac Books |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2016-04-04 |
