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.

Author: Didier Anzieu
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 04/04/2016
Series: History of Psychoanalysis
Pages: 356
Weight: 1.2lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781782201007

About the Author
Anzieu, Didier: - Didier Anzieu is Vice President of the Psychoanalytic Association of France and Emeritus Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Paris X-Nanterre. He is the author of several books published in English translation. These include Freud's Self Analysis, The Group and the Unconscious and The Skin Ego. He has also edited and contributed to Psychic Envelopes, a collection of papers which further develops the "Skin Ego" concept.