ABSTRACT
In order to explore properly the idea of the body in psychoanalysis, we have to go back to the concept of the drives. That epigenetic plasticity of neuronal structures evokes a progressive form of structuring in which each new experience leaves its mark; in turn, this will remodel retroactively the markers that structured earlier experiences. In addition, the authors hypothesis is that it is the repeated experiencing of that drive-related trajectory that will participate in the construction of an entity that is capable of perceiving it. An emotion is perceived via a loop that starts in the brain, goes towards the body, then comes back to the brain again. That is the body loop. Within the epigenetic factors contributing to brain development, does the intersubjective factor have a specific role to play in the binding and integrating function? Binding very probably varies according to the quality of the "tuning" of the intersubjective dimension.
