Body image and identity in contemporary societies [electronic resource] : psychoanalytic, social, cultural and aesthetic perspectives / edited by Ekaterina Sukhanova and Hans-Otto Thomashoff.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. How the brain creates art and dreams / Hans-Otto Thomashoff -- 2. Norm(s) and functions in outside art / Ekaterina Sukhanova -- 3. Body and identity objects of redemption in today's unrest / Angelique Christaki -- 4. Contemporary body : medicine to modern art / Remy Potier -- 5. Physical disability in the collective imagination / William Ebenstein -- 6. The disabled body in contemporary society / Simone Korff Sausse -- 7. Body image and identity in victims of extreme violence / Regine Waintrater -- 8. The body and aids transformed into a work of art by Herve Guibert / Anne Brun -- 9. The 'composite body' in contemporary art / Catherine Desprats Pequignot -- 10. The multiple bodies of Michael Jackson, a paradigm for understanding postmodern society? / Silke Schauder -- 11. From catharsis to the cathartic : towards a post-dramatic theory of representation / Renata Mattos-Avril and Jean-Michel Vives -- 12. Modified images of the body : new forms of identity with a note on the cadavers of Gunther von Hagens / Celine Masson -- 13. Of beauty and "beauties" : female identities and body image in Colombia / Alcira Forero Pena -- 14. Tattoos/hysteria / Jeanne Wolff Bernstein -- 15. Body in art and art therapy : humorous presentations / Alexander Kopytin.