Aloupis, Panos

Body Marks and the Psyche - 2010.


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From the consultations of a man who had a tattoo done to cover scarring resulting from cardiac surgery, the author speaks about the effects on the mental apparatus brought about by a body marked by excitation and illness. Thus he establishes a relationship between the function of inhibition and the place of the ideal, psychically inscribed in the commerce between the drive and otherness.