Leon Brenner - The Dermic Drive
Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour
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The Importance of Second Skin in the Development of Psychic Structures
Esther Dick was a pioneer in the thinking about the psychic skin function, she didn't write a lot. But she did do a lot of very close observations of infants. For her, almost, or even all psychopathologies can be traced back to early skin disturbances. So for Dick, those babies that did not proceed to establish the primary skin function, so they'll back this skin to skin contact. Then they attempt to compensate by constructing a second skin. This is always patho... E pathology. It always has... many, many psychophologies that she discusses. And you've said this correctly, she was speaking about what is very popular today, outside the world of psychoanalysis,
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