Title: The skin ego
First published: 1989
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'.
Subjects: Ego, Ego (Psychology), Mind and body, Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Theory, Psychological aspects, Psychological aspects of Skin, Skin, Psychophysiology, Touch
LC classification: BF175.5.E35 A5813 1989