Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Palgrave Macmillan
Book cover

Skin, Culture and Psychoanalysis

  • Book
  • © 2013

Overview

Editors:
  1. Sheila L. Cavanagh

    1. York University, Canada

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  2. Angela Failler

    1. University of Winnipeg, Canada

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  3. Rachel Alpha Johnston Hurst

    1. St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Introduction Enfolded: Skin, Culture and Psychoanalysis

    • Sheila L. Cavanagh, Angela Failler, Rachel Alpha Johnston Hurst
    Pages 1-15

  3. From the Skin Ego to the Psychic Envelope: An Introduction to the Work of Didier Anzieu

    • Marc Lafrance
    Pages 16-44

  4. Comedic Skin Eruptions: A Psychoanalytic Reading of Austin Powers

    • Sheila Kunkle
    Pages 45-63

  5. The Surfacing of the Self: The Clothing-Ego

    • Stella North
    Pages 64-89

  6. The Red Thing: Fabrics and Fetishism in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand

    • Sara Davis
    Pages 90-114

  7. Writing Skin: Esthetics and Transcendence in Junichirō Tanizaki’s “The Tattooer”

    • Andrew Hock Soon Ng
    Pages 115-140

  8. The Skin-Textile in Cosmetic Surgery

    • Rachel Alpha Johnston Hurst
    Pages 141-166

  9. Narrative Skin Repair: Bearing Witness to Mediatized Representations of Self-Harm

    • Angela Failler
    Pages 167-187

  10. Split Skin: Adolescent Cutters and the Other

    • Erica D. Galioto
    Pages 188-214

  11. Disrupting the Skin-Ego: See-Sickness and the Real in The Flagellation of a Virgin

    • Shawn Thomson
    Pages 215-239

  12. “White Trash:” Abject Skin in Film Reviews of Monster

    • Sheila L. Cavanagh
    Pages 240-267

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 268-277
    Download chapter PDF
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • York University, Canada

    Sheila L. Cavanagh

  • University of Winnipeg, Canada

    Angela Failler

  • St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

    Rachel Alpha Johnston Hurst

About the editors

SARA DAVIS is the book exhibits manager at University of Pennsylvania Press, and a doctoral candidate in American Literature at Temple University, USA ERICA D. GALIOTO is Associate Professor of English at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, USA SHEILA KUNKLE is Assistant Professor of the College of Individualized Studies of Metropolitan State University in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA MARC LAFRANCE is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada ANDREW HOCK SOON NG is Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies at Monash University Malaysia STELLA NORTH is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia SHAWN THOMSON is a doctoral candidate in the Graduate Program in Social and Political Thought at York University, Canada

Bibliographic Information

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation