Envy and the maternal body : the psychodynamics of cosmetic surgery -- Whose skin is it anyway? some reflections on the psychic function of necrophilic fantasies -- An order of pure decision : growing up in a virtual world and the adolescent's experience of being-in-a-body -- Present without past : the disruption of temporal integration in a case of transsexuality -- The body one has and the body one is : the transsexual's need to be seen -- Trauma and the body : a psychoanalytic reading of Almodóvar's "The skin I live in" -- The body of the analyst and the analytic setting : reflections on the embodied setting and the symbiotic transference -- Rapunzel revisited : untangling the unconscious meaning of hair -- Off the couch, into the toilet : exploring the psychic uses of the analyst's toilet -- Entrepreneurs of the self : some psychoanalytic reflections on the psychic and social functions of reality TV makeover shows
Summary
Minding the Body: The Body in Psychoanalysis and Beyond outlines the value of a psychoanalytic approach to understanding the body and its vicissitudes and for addressing these in the context of psychoanalytic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. The chapters cover a broad but esoteric range of subjects that are not often discussed within psychoanalysis such as the function of breast augmentation surgery, the psychic origins of hair, the use made of the analyst's toilet, transsexuality and the connection between dermatological conditions and necrophilic fantasies. The book also reaches 'beyond
