ABSTRACT
Chapter Four begins with a description of bodily agency primarily and fundamentally based on our patterns of movement and the kinesthetic feedback they provide. How movements emerge in relation to the universal forces of the field—gravity, earth, and space—is discussed and using a developmental lens. Edmund Husserl's exposition of time consciousness is integrated within movement theory and gestalt therapy theory to express the process of remembering, denoting bodily competence as its centerpiece. The chapter further develops the concept of the six fundamental movements, focusing on the initial movements of the sequence—yielding-with and pushing-against—and their primary position in the organizing of subjectivity. Case vignettes of an eight-month-old baby and father (in person), and an adult participant in a psychotherapy training program (virtually), show how co-created movement patterns, emerging within the relational field, are primary in the formation of experience.
