You Are Your Body: Considerations on the Relation between Self and Body Vous êtes votre corps Tu sei il tuo corpo Du bist dein Körper Tú Eres Tu Cuerpo Você é o Seu Corpo Ты и твое тело 你是你的身体

The essay examines Alexander Lowen’s basic assumption that «you are your body”. Many aspects of our culture, however, contradict this statement, identifying the ego with the linguistic-mental processes of the brain. According to the author, the phenomenological perspective, focusing on subjective experience, allows us to conceive the person as a «living organism”, a perspective that therefore supports Lowen’s original assumption. A brief clinical case illustrates this thesis. peerReviewed publishedVersion