ABSTRACT
Body psychotherapy has itself historically tended to take a similar position on the incompatibility of speech/thought and embodied experience—though taking, one might simplistically say, the other side of the argument, and privileging embodiment over language. Wilhelm Reich situates his developed technique of body psychotherapy "essentially outside the sphere of human language". Reich acknowledges an intermediate zone between symbolic communication through language, and internal bodily experience: his own undeveloped version of the Flesh. In contrast, James Kepner suggests, "body therapist must have access to their own deep embodiment and relate to the client in a deeply embodied way": "To be deeply embodied is to have access to one's body experience as self-experience". The semiotic enters communicative speech as a rebellious surplus: The way in which the semiotic enters the symbolic constitutes a return, a repetition of language in its origins, in its past, and thus a regression.
