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The Water in the Glass: Wilhelm Reich, Psychoanalysis and Body Psychotherapy
What is a body?
Most of us probably feel we have some intuitive grasp of the answer to this question. It takes philosophers and psychoanalysts to throw this certainty into doubt. The doubt is often fruitful; but it can make us wonder whether we have bodies, whether we are bodies. What follows is an attempt to re-balance our thinking around these issues; suggesting among other things that our doubts about the body, our sense of alienation from it, themselves reflect a problem of a psychoanalytic nature. Through a historical and philosophical examination of the work of some pioneer figures - Freud, Reich, Ferenczi and Groddeck - I suggest howh we can reassure ourselves that we in fact are bodies; that it is with, in and through our bodies that we both feel and think; and that this way of experiencing is profoundly ‘psychoanalytic’, and in fact restitutive of something important that has gone missing from psychoanalysis.
Most of us probably feel we have some intuitive grasp of the answer to this question. It takes philosophers and psychoanalysts to throw this certainty into doubt. The doubt is often fruitful; but it can make us wonder whether we have bodies, whether we are bodies. What follows is an attempt to re-balance our thinking around these issues; suggesting among other things that our doubts about the body, our sense of alienation from it, themselves reflect a problem of a psychoanalytic nature. Through a historical and philosophical examination of the work of some pioneer figures - Freud, Reich, Ferenczi and Groddeck - I suggest howh we can reassure ourselves that we in fact are bodies; that it is with, in and through our bodies that we both feel and think; and that this way of experiencing is profoundly ‘psychoanalytic’, and in fact restitutive of something important that has gone missing from psychoanalysis.
267 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 13, 2026
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