To move and be moved

Introduction. Dance/movement and body experience in analysis. Mary Starks Whitehouse. Movement from the personal unconscious. Movement from the cultural unconscious. Movement from the primordial unconscious. Movement from the ego-self axis. The mover, the witness, and their relationship. Closure

'In the beginning, there was not the word, but rather there was the symbolic action--a union of body and psyche. In the beginning, dance was the scared language through which we communed and communicated with the vast unknown....Then, through the centuries, in the name of progress and civilization, mind and body were split apart....The instinctive body was seen as a threat because it represented the "lower", animal aspects of human nature. As the life of the body was suppressed, so too was the receptive, femine principle....Both the body and the feminine were relegated to the underworld, along with all that is despised and rejected.' --Introduction

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