The skin ego
By: Didier Anzieu ; translated by Chris Turner.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 246
Subjects: Ego (Psychology); Skin -- Psychological aspects.; Mind and body.; Psychoanalysis.; Ego.; Psychoanalytic Theory.; Skin.
Description: 'Didier Anzieu (1985) theorized on the skin-ego, the first narcissistic envelope on which the feeling of well-being is based', suggesting for example that 'narcissistic personalities...possess an unusually thick skin ego; in contrast, masochistic and borderline personalities show remarkably thin skin ego'. Anzieu would extend the concept to a broader notion of "psychic envelope", exploring for example the idea of 'the dream envelope. This is the name Didier Anzieu gives to the visual dream-film, the fine, ephemeral membrane which he thinks of as replacing the tactile envelope of the ego's vulnerable skin'.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [237]-244.
Translation of: Le Moi-peau.
Includes index.