The body of presence: sensing bodily processes in the present moment of an analytic encounter

The space-time of the analytic encounter serves as the framework for this contribution: the experience of a single session becomes a threshold through which to approach feeling, bodily processes, and states of consciousness. The inquiry focuses on a quality of presence rooted in interoception, neuroception, and somatic listening: a mode of attunement that engages with significant frequencies, orienting the predictive system while remaining open to its suspension. It is in this suspension that the potential for embodied creativity and consistency emerges. The analytic meeting radically exposes the partiality of perspectives and the complex interplay of the variables involved, as lived by both patient and analyst. That unique encounter, between those particular subjects, is not merely an event, but a holographic expression of complexity: analyst and patient together on the threshold, listening, resonating, opening to the experience of vocality. This gives rise to essential questions: What kind of presence unfolds as we inhabit the affective hypothesis of sensing and perceiving trust and flexibility? What possibilities arise when presence becomes permeable to bodily felt experience? And what impact does this have on the subject’s capacity to embody consistency and creative agency in the ongoing becoming of the I-subject?