ABSTRACT
This book focuses attention in psychoanalysis on the body and the body-mind relationship, together with the conflict and dissociation that we sometimes find there. This does not imply returning to a sort of Cartesian dualism, since in harmonious relations between body and mind the two are integrated and in dialogue with each other: instead it involves taking note of a whole series of clinical phenomena characterized by a discordant arrangement, including the situation in which body and mind tend not to interact, but instead to exclude each other. Body and mind differ in their natures, hence we are all exposed, by the very nature of things, to a conflict between something concrete and something immaterial.
