Author: Didier Anzieu File Type: pdf In this classic work, Didier Anzieu presents a synthesis of his research and proposes a theory on the functions of the skin-ego. Just as the skin is envelope to the body, Anzieu sees the skin-ego as a psychic envelope containing, defining and protecting the psyche. From this perspective, the structures and the function of the skin can provide psychoanalysts and psychotherapists with fertile analogies. Anzieus concept of the skin-ego is the answer to questions he regards as crucial to contemporary psychoanalysis questions of topography which were left incomplete by Freud the analysis of fantasies of the container as of the contained issues of touch between mothers and babies extending the concept of prohibitions within an Oedipal framework to those derived from a prohibition on touching and questions pertaining to the representation of the body and to its psychoanalytic setting This new translation of Le Moi-peau is based on the second and last (1995) edition. **Review It is wonderful to see Didier Anzieus The Skin-Ego reissued in English. The Skin-Ego is one of the most significant psychoanalytic texts of the last thirty years. It offers a radical revision of Freudian thinking, closely linked to major traditions in British psychoanalysis but also distinctively French in its philosophical and cultural reach. This sparkling and accessible new translation by Naomi Segal gives Anglophone readers an opportunity to appreciate the versatility of Anzieus ideas on the skin and on psychical wrapping, and to absorb his deeply scholarly, systematic and practical style. There is more to French psychoanalysis than Lacan - and this book is one of its most important contributions to the psychoanalytic literature.- Stephen Frosh, Professor of Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck, University of LondonThis new translation is brilliant, and makes the Skin-Ego theory very accessible now that neuroscience and research on infants and parents have demonstrated how Anzieu was right in his ideas of an early influence on narcissistic disorders, this new translation will be very useful for young therapists who didnt have access to this kind of manual of psychoanalytic treatment of difficult patients. Naomi Segal, who knows so well Anzieus developments on the origins of the capacity for thinking and its roots in early experiences, manages the task of the translator wonderfully, and captures the essence of this very original theory of containment and psychoanalytic technique.- Christine Anzieu-Premmereur, MD, PhD, Assistant Clinical Professor in Psychiatry at Columbia University and Director of the Columbia Psychoanalytic Centers Parent-Infant Program Language Notes Text English, French (translation)

Author: Brian Boyd File Type: epub At the age of twenty-one, Brian Boyd wrote an essay on Vladimir Nabokov that the author called brilliant. In 1991, after gaining exclusive access to the writers archives, he wrote a two-part, award-winning biography, Vladimir Nabokov The Russian Years and Vladimir Nabokov The American Years, that has become standard reading. This collection features essays written by Boyd after completing Nabokovs biography, incorporating material he gleaned from his research as well as new discoveries and formulations. This volume forms the perfect companion for readers of Nabokov, approaching the author from a variety of angles and perspectives.Boyd confronts Nabokovs life, career, and legacy his art, science, and thought his subtle humor and puzzle-like storytelling his complex psychological portraits and his inheritance from, reworking of, or affinities with Shakespeare, Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Machado de Assis. Boyd offers new ways of reading Nabokovs best English-language...

Author: Jacqueline A. Guendouzi File Type: pdf The qualitative analysis of naturally occurring discourse in neurogenic communication disorders, specifically in dementia studies, has experienced recent burgeoning interest from wide-ranging disciplines. This multidisciplinarity has been exciting, but has added contextual confusion. This new book advances the study of discourse in dementia by systematically exploring and applying different approaches to the same free conversational data sets, collected and transcribed by the authors. The applied methodologies and theories comprise a useful sourcebook for students, researchers, and practitioners alike.ReviewThis book describes in critical detail a number of forms of discourse analysis that are relevant to the language of individuals with dementia and their interlocutors. However, it has much broader implications for the analysis of individuals with language disorders in general. It is highly recommended for students who wish to learn the wealth of information that can be gleaned from the study ofdiscourse. Audrey HollandEmeritus, University of ArizonaReviewThis book describes in critical detail a number of forms of discourse analysis that are relevant to the language of individuals with dementia and their interlocutors. However, it has much broader implications for the analysis of individuals with language disorders in general. It is highly recommended for students who wish to learn the wealth of information that can be gleaned from the study of discourse. --Audrey Holland Emeritus, University of Arizona

Author: Brian E. Crim File Type: pdf Project Paperclip brought hundreds of German scientists and engineers, including aerospace engineer Wernher von Braun, to the United States in the first decade after World War II. More than the freighters full of equipment or the documents recovered from caves and hastily abandoned warehouses, the German brains who designed and built the V-2 rocket and other wonder weapons for the Third Reich proved invaluable to Americas emerging military-industrial complex. Whether they remained under military employment, transitioned to civilian agencies like NASA, or sought more lucrative careers with corporations flush with government contracts, German specialists recruited into the Paperclip program assumed enormously influential positions within the labyrinthine national security state. Drawing on recently declassified documents from intelligence agencies, the Department of Defense, the FBI, and the State Department, Brian Crims Our Germans examines the process of integrating German scientists into a national security state dominated by the armed services and defense industries. Crim explains how the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency enticed targeted scientists, whitewashed the records of Nazis and war criminals, and deceived government agencies about the content of security investigations. Exploring the vicious bureaucratic rivalries that erupted over the wisdom, efficacy, and morality of pursuing Paperclip, Our Germans reveals how some Paperclip proponents and scientists influenced the perception of the rival Soviet threat by volunteering inflated estimates of Russian intentions and technical capabilities. As it describes the projects embattled legacy, Our Germans reflects on the myriad ways that Paperclip has been remembered in culture and national memory. As this engaging book demonstrates, whether characterized as an expedient Cold War program born from military necessity or a dishonorable episode, the project ultimately reflects American ambivalence about the military-industrial complex and the viability of an ends justifies the means solution to external threats.