I’m gonna shut myself in the NYPL stacks and read this.
The Skin Ego. Didier Anzieu, 1989.
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“In France where it appeared in 1974 it was called ‘Le moi-peau.’ A man in a whitecoat explains: ’ The term “skin-ego” designates a mental representation that the child forms on the basis of its experience of the surface of its body and uses to picture itself as the vessel of mental contents. The skin-ego belongs to the period in development when the psychic ego differentiates from the body ego on the practical level while remaining indistinguishable from it in the imagination. Intermediate between metaphor and concept, the notion of the skin-ego was worked out by Didier Anzieu and first presented in 1974.” (via Bookride)
