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List of contents
Series Editor’s Foreword , Translator’s Foreword , Introduction , Discovery , Epistemological preliminaries , Four sets of data , The notion of a Skin-ego , The Greek Myth of Marsyas , The psychogenesis of the Skin-ego , Structure, Functions, Overcoming , Two precursors of the theory of the Skin-ego: Freud and Federn , The functions of the Skin-ego , Disturbances of basic sensori-motor distinctions , Impairments of the structure of the Skin-ego in narcissistic personalities and borderline cases , The double taboo on touching, the condition for overcoming the Skin-ego , Principal Configurations , The wrapping of sound , The thermal wrapping , The olfactory wrapping , Confusion of qualities of taste , The second muscular skin , The wrapping of suffering , The film of dreams , Summaries and further observations , Chapter Eighteen from 1985 edition , Table of Case Studies
About the author
Didier Anzieu (1923-1999) was a French psychoanalyst and theorist whose work brought the body back to the centre of psychoanalytic enquiry. He was the author of numerous books and articles, on areas ranging from Freud's self-analysis, group psychology, and psychodrama to theories of creativity and thought; he also published short stories, literary criticism, a drama, a book of cartoons and a study of May 1968 written from the heart of Nanterre. His research was always conducted alongside his academic and clinical practice, both characterised by inclusivity, curiosity, a broad mind and a gentle manner.Naomi Segal is a professor of modern languages, specialising in comparative literary and cultural studies, gender, psychoanalysis and the body. In 2004 she created and directed the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London. She has published fifteen books, of which the most recent monographs are 'Consensuality: Didier Anzieu, Gender and the Sense of Touch' and 'Andre Gide: Pederasty and Pedagogy'. She is an Academic Associate of the British Psychoanalytical Society, a Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes academiques and a Member of the Academia Europaea.
Summary
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.
