PSYCHOANALYTIC VIEWS 8 “Ailing Body: Psychosomatic” (2014)
Freud says, “The ego is first and foremost a bodily ego; it is not merely a surface entity, but is itself the projection of a surface. The ego is ultimately derived from bodily sensations, chiefly from those springing from the surface of the body” and talks about how the physical stimulation or excitement yet without a psychic imprint short-circuits and transforms into impulse.