Skin, Culture and Psychoanalysis - by S Cavanagh & A Failler & R Hurst (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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