embodiment
The bodily aspects of human subjectivity. Embodiment is the central theme in European phenomenology, with its most extensive treatment in the works of Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Merleaue-Ponty’s account of embodiment distinguishes between “the objective body”, which is the body regarded as a physiological entity, and the “phenomenal body”, which is not just some body, some particular physiological entity, but my body as I experience it.
Embodiment is not a concept that pertains to the body grasped as a physiological entity. Rather it pertains to the phenomenal body and to the role it plays in our object-directed experiences.