Skin psychoanalysis2/26/2024 ![]() Through clinical example, I try to demonstrate how these archetypal 'second skins' can preserve life until internal and external conditions make it possible for the self to emerge. ![]() Such delusional identifications can provide a protective shield to hide the denuded self and prevent intrusion from the external world. ![]() I attempt to show how the adoption of these inflated personas can serve as secondary psychic skins. Some of the patients diagnosed as schizophrenic with whom I work have identified with archetypal characters such as Christ, Satan, John Lennon and the Queen. When psychoses emerge, the defensive skin which protects the ego is breached and violent unconscious forces rip through the personality. In this paper, I apply the concept of psychic skin to analytic work with people suffering from personality disorders and psychoses.
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