Integrating Body Self & Psychological Self: Creating a New Story in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy by David W. Krueger
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Overview: When Freud (1923) called the ego first a body ego, psychoanalysis was based on the body, its drives and bodily events understood as fundamental to the organization of experience. The body self and somatic experience- representation have perhaps been left behind in the idealization of cognition, assuming the body as developmentally differentiated, Oedipal, and verbally accessible. Since Freud, psychoanalysis has consistently aligned the body with the unconscious, thereby relegating it to metaphor, not directly linked to sensory and affective experience of the moment.
Some patients, however, who are unattuned to their affective world, may not have the psychological register for some affect states, nor the representation of body self and psychological self for their integration.
They make their bodies the narrator of what words cannot say; of sensation for which there is no lexicon; and of feelings they cannot bear in their conscious mind; of action language rather than verbalization. This difficulty of putting some emotional experience into useful language is subsequently shared by analysts. At times an artificial clarity or premature closure can be developed when the analyst tries to put unarticulated thoughts or feelings into interpretive generalizations or pattern matching of present and past.
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