ABSTRACT
Nausea is associated with the absence of boundaries. Although the author seems to separate, reject and remove by means of it—nausea actually supplies that the author with a much greater, much more capacious "Other" in which the author becomes absorbed and which helps it to deny the experience of lack and desire. Psychosomatic drama is often linked with primary trauma and huge difficulty concerning separation and separateness. Difficulty in transforming body into language—or the raw primary data of experience into words and symbols—situates the psychosomatic drama at an extremely early stage of development prior to mentalization. A significant difference between a metaphoric and a metonymic use of the body can also be assumed to exist in the involuntary psychosomatic phenomena— not just in self-initiated bodily acts. Psychotic psychosomatic expression is an expression which creates, through the consummate chaos of bodily experience, an illusion of union without lack. One of its hallmarks is the huge satisfaction it offers in its wake.
