The Skin as an Organ of the Libidinal Body

Psychoanalysis has always been interested in the body. But what is the body psychoanalytically speaking? That is, not the body as organism or the body as image? In this short video essay you can learn about Freud and Lacan’s view on the body as libido: an uncanny and unreal organ that carries us into the domain of the sexual drive.

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Content and narration: Leon Brenner
Graphics: Adam Luczak

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