Between Skins: The Body in Psychoanalysis - Contemporary Developments -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Why Between Skins? -- This Book Sets Out To . . . -- Links with Psychoanalysis and Why Psychoanalysis? -- Towards Sociality -- Embodied Cultural Differences -- Relating to the Clinical Field -- The Structure of the Book -- Note -- Part I The Framework: Neuroscience and Interdisciplinary Connections -- 1 Introducing Interdisciplinary Connections -- Interdisciplinary Connections -- Philosophical Concerns in This Enquiry -- The Irreducible Organic Component and How It Figures for Us -- Neuroscience: One of the Important Bed-Mates -- Challenging a Top-Down Approach -- The Brain-Body Map -- Psychoanalysis: The Brain-Body Map and Body Image -- Body Image versus Body Schema -- Why I Do Not Adopt Gallagher and Cole's Terminology -- Working Towards a Brain-Body Mapping -- Avoiding Mentalist Reduction -- Moving Towards a Brain-Body-Ego Relational Perspective: An Imaginary Lived Geography -- And Finally -- Note -- 2 Nurture/Nature -- The Complex Interdependence of Organism and Environment -- Attachment, Developmental Psychology and Intercorporeality -- Intercorporeality: The Philosophical Contribution, Developmental Psychology, Mirror Neurons -- Biology and Sexuality: Regulation and Deregulation of Biorelational Processes -- Notes -- 3 Bodily Expression and Language Relations -- Affective Bodily Relations -- Bodily Proto-Conversation: Sensory Semiotics as the Basis for Language -- Bodily Expression as a Form of Language -- Absence, the Symbol and the Somatic -- In the Beginning Was the Body: Lakoff and Johnson -- Somatic Access to the Symbol -- The 'Maternal' and the 'Other' -- Notes -- 4 Setting the Scene: The Problem of the Binary Divide -- Inside versus Outside in Early Klein -- The Context of the Freud-Klein Controversies, 1941-1945.

Persistent Dualism in Developments of Bion and Psychosomatics -- An 'Over-Mental' View in Anglo-American Psychoanalysis -- Body versus Speech in Lacan -- Note -- Part II The Vital Order: Moving Away from Interiority and Biology as Bedrock -- 5 The Vital Order and the Biological Functions: Going Back to the Fundamental Problem -- Biology versus Sexuality: An Untenable Division? -- Introduction to Jean Laplanche -- Setting Up the Solution Finds the Problem -- Excess: The Marginal Effect as an Increase in Excitation Relating to Emergent Sexuality -- Between Skins: The Alien Entity and the Flesh -- To Sum Up -- 6 The Problem of Dualism and the Division between the Vital and the Psychic Order -- 7 The Vital Revisited: Deconstructing the Vital Order from Within -- The Reversal and Implications: The Vital is Not the Prop but Now Requires Propping -- Reframing the Vital Order: The Lack of Preordained Limit and Excess -- The Other, Temporal Delay and Somatic Lack -- The Vital Bodily Processes Open onto Memory -- Identity as Difference: The Vital Order as Vital Field -- Notes -- 8 Rebuilding the Vital Field -- The Edifice: Intercorporeality -- Sensory Semiotic Vital Set-Ups -- On the Way to Language -- Alexithymia from the View of the Proto-Conversation as the Basis for Linguistic Access -- Notes -- 9 Body Memory and Know-How -- Putting In Question an A Priori Unity to Body Experience -- Procedural Body Memory Know-How and Anti-Knowledge -- Trauma and Body Memory -- Body Memory and Deferred Action Reconfigurations -- Note -- 10 Attachment and Sexuality: Regulation versus Deregulation -- The Relationship between Attachment and Sexuality -- Sexual Arousal and Loss -- Body-Based Trauma and Deregulation -- Introduction to the Uncanny in the Somatic Sphere -- Part III Exteriority: The Body Surface -- 11 The Skin: An Introduction -- The Skin Surface.

Brain-Body Maps -- Mirroring the Body Surface: From Neuroscience to Psychoanalysis -- A Broad Definition of Body Image -- Brain-Body Maps and the Skin Ego -- Notes -- 12 Didier Anzieu and The Skin Ego -- The Laplanche-Anzieu Propping Connection -- Summary of The Skin Ego -- A Relational Turn in Anzieu's Thinking -- Clinical Cases Charting Skin Ego Disturbances -- Challenges to the Main Account -- 13 Permeable Skin -- Doubling in Tactile Sensation and the Auto-Affective Turn -- A Revision of Narcissism and the Body: A Relational and Multi-Personal Perspective -- To Conclude -- 14 The Emergence of Skin as a Support Matrix -- Anzieu's Clinical Examples and Additions -- A Skin Surface Projection -- 15 Skin Narratives -- The Mobile Skin and Matrix Structure -- Skin Narratives and Trauma -- Skin States -- The Case of Debbie -- 16 Skin Relation -- Touch and Attachment -- Skin Relations -- What Is Required for a Relational Skin? -- In Summary -- Note -- 17 Skin Writing and Touch as Analogous to Language -- Trauma and Disturbances in Tactility and Differentiation -- The Alien Entity in the Skin: Unheimlich as the Skin -- Body Image and Unheimlich -- A Literal-Littoral Skin Surface -- What Is Between Skins? -- 18 Psychosomatics and Conversion: The Question Of The Symbol -- Joyce McDougall: Psychosomatics versus Conversion -- Symbolic Processing -- Bodily Enactment -- The Body Speaks the Subject -- Somatic Access to the Symbol and Symbolic Processing -- Symbolic Categories: Different Types of Somatic Symptom Formation -- No Neat Compartmentalization -- The Body and the Hole in the Symbolic -- Summing Up -- Note -- Conclusion: Have We Reached A Destination? -- The Body as Interface -- Somatization and the Symptom -- Have We Reached a Destination? -- Note -- References and Further Reading -- Index.