Abstract
ABSTRACT The invitation extended to me by the Editors to contribute to this issue of Psychoanalytic Inquiry, centered on embodiment, made me realize that I had never explicitly addressed the subject. And so in this essay, without contextualizing my thoughts about embodiment in the large, existing literature on the topic, I begin to think through the relation of embodiment to the phenomena I have described over the course of the last forty years or so: unformulated experience, dissociation, enactment, and the interpersonal field. I also take up the relation of the verbal and the nonverbal, arguing that to grant a fundamental role to the body in psychoanalysis does not imply that language is secondary. I go on to present a schematic understanding of the role of embodied processes in the formulation of experience, and I end with an illustration of somatic life in clinical process.
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