Embodiment.

Full Abstract

Groddeck, most interestingly, proposed that the body manifested the mind, and the mind the body. I consider his interactional viewpoint from several perspectives. First, I discuss how the entire body not only is minded by and minding of all that occurs within and without, but as well how the developable capacity for mindfulness affects the perception of reality, within and without. Secondly, I consider the body as delusion, a seemingly necessary anchor into the reality of the physical world, whereas Groddeck's and Ferenczi's openness to ideas of telepathy and communication beyond death flirts with a disembodied transcendence of physicality. And third, I propose that Groddeck's psychoanalytic approach, like Buddhist meditational techniques, reveals an experiential flux of embodiment and disembodiment in each re-embodied moment of being alive.

Author information

Author/s: Langan, Robert (R);

Affiliation: Center for Applied Psychoanalysis, William Alanson White Institute. rlangan(-atsign-)psychoanalysis.net

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Historical Article; Journal Article

Journal: American journal of psychoanalysis (Am J Psychoanal), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2007-Sep; vol 67 (issue 3) : pp 249-59

Dates: Created 2007/08/24; Completed 2007/10/09;

PMID: 17717555, status: MEDLINE (last retrieved date: 2/18/2009)

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