Steve Pile teaches Geography at The Open University, UK. Publishing on issues concerning place and the politics of identity, Steve is the author of Real Cities (2005) and The Body and The City (1996), which both develop a psychoanalytic approach to geography. It is through these projects that he became interested in bodies and affects and their relationship to contemporary modernity. His many collaborative projects include Psychoanalytic Geographies (2014) edited with Paul Kingsbury, and Spaces of Spirituality (2018) edited with Nadia Bartolini and Sara MacKian.

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• List of Figures viSeries Editors’ Preface viiiPreface ix1 Introduction: Bodies, Affects and Their Politicisation 12 Dislocated by Epidermal Schemas: Skin, Race and a Proper Place for the Body 273 The Chafing of Bodily Regimes: Skin and the Corporeal Model of the Ego 494 Bodies, Affects and Their Passionate Forms: Animal Phobias and the Topologies of Bodily and Psychic Space 705 The Worldliness of Unconscious Processes: The Repressive and Distributive Functions of the Unconscious 916 The Transference of Affect: The Communicative Function of the Unconscious 1137 Crazy about Their Bodies: The Art-work of Sharon Kivland and the Politics of the Female Body 1368 Conclusion: Bodies, Affects, Politics 158References 179Index 192

Steve Pile teaches Geography at The Open University, UK. Publishing on issues concerning place and the politics of identity, Steve is the author of Real Cities (2005) and The Body and The City (1996), which both develop a psychoanalytic approach to geography. It is through these projects that he became interested in bodies and affects and their relationship to contemporary modernity. His many collaborative projects include Psychoanalytic Geographies (2014) edited with Paul Kingsbury, and Spaces of Spirituality (2018) edited with Nadia Bartolini and Sara MacKian.

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• List of Figures viSeries Editors’ Preface viiiPreface ix1 Introduction: Bodies, Affects and Their Politicisation 12 Dislocated by Epidermal Schemas: Skin, Race and a Proper Place for the Body 273 The Chafing of Bodily Regimes: Skin and the Corporeal Model of the Ego 494 Bodies, Affects and Their Passionate Forms: Animal Phobias and the Topologies of Bodily and Psychic Space 705 The Worldliness of Unconscious Processes: The Repressive and Distributive Functions of the Unconscious 916 The Transference of Affect: The Communicative Function of the Unconscious 1137 Crazy about Their Bodies: The Art-work of Sharon Kivland and the Politics of the Female Body 1368 Conclusion: Bodies, Affects, Politics 158References 179Index 192

Steve Pile teaches Geography at The Open University, UK. Publishing on issues concerning place and the politics of identity, Steve is the author of Real Cities (2005) and The Body and The City (1996), which both develop a psychoanalytic approach to geography. It is through these projects that he became interested in bodies and affects and their relationship to contemporary modernity. His many collaborative projects include Psychoanalytic Geographies (2014) edited with Paul Kingsbury, and Spaces of Spirituality (2018) edited with Nadia Bartolini and Sara MacKian.

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• List of Figures viSeries Editors’ Preface viiiPreface ix1 Introduction: Bodies, Affects and Their Politicisation 12 Dislocated by Epidermal Schemas: Skin, Race and a Proper Place for the Body 273 The Chafing of Bodily Regimes: Skin and the Corporeal Model of the Ego 494 Bodies, Affects and Their Passionate Forms: Animal Phobias and the Topologies of Bodily and Psychic Space 705 The Worldliness of Unconscious Processes: The Repressive and Distributive Functions of the Unconscious 916 The Transference of Affect: The Communicative Function of the Unconscious 1137 Crazy about Their Bodies: The Art-work of Sharon Kivland and the Politics of the Female Body 1368 Conclusion: Bodies, Affects, Politics 158References 179Index 192