ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to provide a series of frameworks and models for describing the holistic and inseparable unity of experience of a somatic and psychic individual in a collective body, which is a bodily-mental-social experience. Psychoanalysis begins with bodily needs. Freud analysed emotional and social experiences by reference to what infants at different stages of development needed to satisfy their internal pains and restore a state of internal equilibrium. Infant observation confirms the way the whole body resonates in muscular fashion to the grasping of the nipple with hands and toes curling in harmony. Erikson takes his description of child development further than just applying each of these zones to Freud's developmental stages, oral, anal, genital. Freud and Breuer first studied hysteria as the process by which emotional symptoms expressed themselves through the body. Freud's idea of hysteria can be understood as a case of referred pain.
