Article
The American Journal of Psychoanalysis (2007) 67, 249–259. doi:10.1057/palgrave.ajp.3350030
Embodiment
Paper presented at the Clinical Sándor Ferenczi Conference, August 2–6, 2006, Baden-Baden, Germany.
Robert Langan1
Correspondence: Robert Langan Ph.D., 120 East 62nd Street, #1B, New York, NY 10021, USA. e-mail: rlangan@psychoanalysis.net
1Ph.D., Fellow, Training and Supervising Analyst, Director of the Center for Applied Psychoanalysis, William Alanson White Institute.
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.
Keywords:
psychoanalysis, history of, Groddeck, G., Ferenczi, S., Psychoanalysis and Buddhism
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