The ego in Freud's work and the bodilyness

Abstract

This paper articulates the concept of ego in Freud's work to that of bodilyness in Merleau-Ponty's, allowing a theoretic course in which the body can be thought of in its intersubjective perspective. In bodilyness each person's "flesh", thrown into the world, meets itself in the other's flesh, equally thrown, so that it can rebound again in an expressive unconscious exchange in the relationship; but that, without the conscience of a body, made subjective, loses its possibilities as exchange and expression. In Freud, the chosen frame begins with the concepts of pleasure-ego and reality-ego, passing through the issue of the ideals where the possibility of thinking the relationship between ego and other is concretized. These concepts, through a parallel with the philosophical work, bring their support to psychoanalytic clinic.