You do not currently have permission to view the full text for this document. Please sign in to an account with an active subscription or contact support.
The Revue Française de Psychosomatique (RFP) is a journal aimed at analysts who align themselves with the work of Pierre Marty, the Institute of Psychosomatics, and what is more generally referred to as the ‘Paris school of psychosomatics'. This issue puts the skin under the microscope, as it were, starting with Pierre Marty's first conceptions, moving on to Didier Anzieu's skin-ego and Winnicott's perspectives, and then on to recent refl ections by psychosomaticians and exchanges with other professionals concerned with the skin—both dermatologists and surgeons. The central idea of this issue is that the skin ‘constitutes an interface for thinking about the construction of the human being in a two-fold—biological and psychic—corporeality’ (p. 3) and several authors emphasize the embryological metaphor, indicating that it is the same tissues that give rise to both the skin and the nervous system, and that they have emerged from what is earliest and deepest in life.
The issue opens with the republication of the French version of ‘The allergic object relationship’ (Marty, 1958), one of Pierre Marty's major paper. Re-reading