I have been doing my PhD research on Commonalities about cognitive process between Buddhist Abhidhamma and Cognitive Science. I want to search any books journals committed to these inquiry.
I think that you would be better off looking at Freud's and Lacan's theory of the ego first, followed by attribution theory in social psychology and the literature on body image. Freud's and Lacan's theory of the self as illusory and the self image is of a piece with the Bhuddist theory 'anatman'.