The ï¬esh, the gaze, the text and the lover Katharine Swarbrick Segal, Naomi (2009) Consensuality: Didier Anzieu, Gender and the Sense of Touch (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi) 286pp. ISBN 978-90-420-2586-8 (pb). Léopold, Sandrine (2009) LâÃcriture du regard dans la représentation de la passion amoureuse et du désir: Ãtude comparative dâoeuvres choisies de Madame de Lafayette, Rousseau, Stendhal et Duras (Oxford et al.: Peter Lang) 321pp. IBSN 978-3-03911-542-6 (pb). Aspects of literature and cultural phenomena, skilfully interwoven with psychoanalytic theory are productive of informed and enlightening insights. Recent studies by Naomi Segal and Sandrine Léopold amply demonstrate the potential of this interdisciplinary association to generate interpretations that illuminate both ï¬elds and suggest the powerful overlapping ties that enable this productive exchange. The gaze for Sandrine Léopold and the skin for Naomi Segal are paradigmatic sites which bring elements of psychoanalysis, literature and culture together in reciprocally enriching ways. Segalâs thoughtful discussion and application of psychoanalyst Didier Anzieuâs concept of the skin-ego is food for thought indeed. Anzieuâs book Le Moi-peau [The Skin-Ego], appearing in 1985 and later in 1995, represents his foremost contribution to the ï¬eld of psychoanalytic theory, and it forms the basis of many aspects of
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