ABSTRACT
Chapter Two illuminates more fully the organizing processes that form the veritable basis of social understanding; a trans-subjective experience from which subjectivity takes form. The lived body, one of moving and feeling, is introduced as the basic source of knowledge. The ongoing process of kinesthetic resonance, reverberating feelings tones generated from one to another, is seen as the condition for relational experience. The application of a phenomenological lens to infant development highlights how moving patterns form the essential ground for developing social experience. Narrations of parent-child relations show how lived body experience and expressions are co-created. A case vignette employs a first-person account of a patient experiencing affectively the situation she is now living and in relation to her therapist (in person).
