“The lived body is not an object in the world, but our way of being in the world”

“Character is expressed not only in what a person says, but in how the body moves, breathes, and holds itself”

“Before language, the infant knows vitality”

“Emotional meaning is first encoded in subsymbolic bodily experience”

“Meaning is organized in the body long before it can be symbolized”

“Psychoanalysis is something one experiences with one’s body״

“The analytic situation is always an embodied situation”