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Flesh Memory/Skin Practice

Flesh Memory/Skin Practice Flesh Memory/Skin Practice KATE MEHURON Eastern Michigan University Savage though he was, and hideously marred about the face-at least to my taste-his countenance yet had something in it which was by no means disagreeable. You cannot hide the soul. Herman Melville, Moby Dick As such, the greatest memoirs tend to be allergic to mere confession and mistrustful of revenge, though these are two of the genre's natural impulses. Patricia Hampl, "The Need to Say It" "The spoken word, and even more, the written word, has the power to function as a skin."1 This phrase, written by the French psychoanalyst Didier Anzieu, occurs near the end of his work, The Skin Ego (SE) which is devoted to developing the concept of the skin as a psychic envelope. This concept is intended to amplify the accounts of fantasy offered by psychoan- alytic and object-relations theory, towards an enriched understanding of the skin as a "basic datum that is of both an organic and an imaginary order, both a system for protecting our individuality and a first instrument and site of interaction with others" (SE, 3). Anzieu's work is compelling, insofar as his thematic emphasis promises much for a fleshly phenomenology http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Research in Phenomenology Brill

Flesh Memory/Skin Practice

Research in Phenomenology , Volume 23 (1): 73 – Jan 1, 1993

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Brill
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© 1993 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0085-5553
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1569-1640
DOI
10.1163/156916493X00033
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Abstract

Flesh Memory/Skin Practice KATE MEHURON Eastern Michigan University Savage though he was, and hideously marred about the face-at least to my taste-his countenance yet had something in it which was by no means disagreeable. You cannot hide the soul. Herman Melville, Moby Dick As such, the greatest memoirs tend to be allergic to mere confession and mistrustful of revenge, though these are two of the genre's natural impulses. Patricia Hampl, "The Need to Say It" "The spoken word, and even more, the written word, has the power to function as a skin."1 This phrase, written by the French psychoanalyst Didier Anzieu, occurs near the end of his work, The Skin Ego (SE) which is devoted to developing the concept of the skin as a psychic envelope. This concept is intended to amplify the accounts of fantasy offered by psychoan- alytic and object-relations theory, towards an enriched understanding of the skin as a "basic datum that is of both an organic and an imaginary order, both a system for protecting our individuality and a first instrument and site of interaction with others" (SE, 3). Anzieu's work is compelling, insofar as his thematic emphasis promises much for a fleshly phenomenology

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Research in PhenomenologyBrill

Published: Jan 1, 1993

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