On the motility of the ego

Herbert Spiegelberg

pp. 289-306

in: Waltervon Baeyer, Richard M. Griffith (eds), Conditio humana, Berlin, Springer, 1966

Abstrakt

A shift of the ego in relation to the body schema corresponds to the dominance or the movement of the torso. While in the waking, active human being the ego is localized in the region of the bridge of the nose between the eyes, it descends in dancing into the torso2.