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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Introduction Enfolded: Skin, Culture and Psychoanalysis / Sheila L. Cavanagh, Angela Failler and Rachel Alpha Johnston Hurst -- 1. From the Skin Ego to the Psychic Envelope: An Introduction to the Work of Didier Anzieu / Marc Lafrance -- 2. Comedic Skin Eruptions: A Psychoanalytic Reading of Austin Powers / Sheila Kunkle -- 3. The Surfacing of the Self: The Clothing-Ego / Stella North -- 4. The Red Thing: Fabrics and Fetishism in Nella Larsen's Quicksand / Sara Davis -- 5. Writing Skin: Esthetics and Transcendence in Junichiro Tanizaki's 'The Tattooer' / Andrew Hock Soon Ng -- 6. The Skin-Textile in Cosmetic Surgery / Rachel Alpha Johnston Hurst -- 7. Narrative Skin Repair: Bearing Witness to Mediatized Representations of Self-Harm / Angela Failler -- 8. Split Skin: Adolescent Cutters and the Other / Erica D. Galioto -- 9. Disrupting the Skin-Ego: See-Sickness and the Real in The Flagellation of a Virgin / Shawn Thomson -- 10. "White Trash:" Abject Skin in Film Reviews of Monster / Sheila L. Cavanagh |
| Summary |
"Skin, Culture and Psychoanalysis" queries the intersection of cultural and psychical meanings of skin in the contemporary moment as skin responds to new (and old) pressures and articulations. A variety of topics are herein addressed including the symbolic dominance of white skin, racialization, tattooing, cosmetic surgery, fabric skins, skin eruptions, second skins, the skin in self-harm, and skin as a site of psychic repair. The authors engage an array of objects and approaches from the clinical domain, literary fiction, television, film, video art, photography, fashion design, and poetry. In doing so, they highlight the situation of skin as a socially and culturally mediated exterior simultaneously negotiated at the interior or psychical level. This collection locates skin at the centre of inquiry, rather than as a jumping-off point from which to explore 'deeper' or 'thicker' issues, which tends to happen when skin is treated synecdochically as a stand-in for the body itself. Here, skin is a cultural object, and a psychical object, in its own right |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Human skin color -- Social aspects
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Tattooing -- Social aspects
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Skin -- Social aspects
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Psychoanalysis.
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psychoanalysis.
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Popular culture.
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Material culture.
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Fashion & society.
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ART -- Body Art & Tattooing.
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Society.
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Human skin color -- Social aspects
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Psychoanalysis
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Skin -- Social aspects
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Tattooing -- Social aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cavanagh, Sheila L. (Sheila Lynn), 1969-
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Failler, Angela, 1973-
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Hurst, Rachel Alpha Johnston, 1977-
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| ISBN |
9781137300041 |
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1137300043 |
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