ABSTRACT

M Anzieu, classical psychoanalysts have taken little interest in the real body, which has been scotomized and put between parentheses. At most the notion of body image is acknowledged, while it is absent from Laplanche and Pontalis's The Language of Psycho-Analysis, There is a tendency in psychoanalysis to sidestep the body in order to listen to words, above all. You are in this sense unorthodox, since you are one of the rather few classical psychoanalysts who increasingly listen in to bodily vibrations. Could you talk to us about this?