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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

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Author:   Jorge Ulnik
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.720kg
ISBN:  

9780367326975

ISBN 10:   0367326973
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   31 July 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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)

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