ABSTRACT
How easy it is to take for granted the lodgement of the psyche in the body and to forget that this again is an achievement. It is an achievement which by no means falls to the lot of all. Also in some the process is exaggerated, and forced by parents who take a great pride in infantile gymnastics. Even those who seem to live in the body may develop ideas of existing a little further out than the skin, and the word ectoplasm seems to have been applied to the part of the self that is not body-contained. By contrast, in hysteria, there may be a condition in which the skin is not included in the personality and even becomes bloodless and meaningless to the patient.
