基本説明
An interdisciplinary study of skin bridging cultural and psychoanalytic theory to consider how the body's "exterior" is central to human subjectivity and relations. The authors explore racialization, body modification, self-harm, and comedic representations of skin, drawing from the clinical domain, visual arts, popular culture, and literature.
Full Description
An interdisciplinary study of skin bridging cultural and psychoanalytic theory to consider how the body's "exterior" is central to human subjectivity and relations. The authors explore racialization, body modification, self-harm, and comedic representations of skin, drawing from the clinical domain, visual arts, popular culture, and literature.
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 Index
