TY - JOUR AU - Baum, Scott PY - 2022/03/01 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Living On Purpose: Reality, Unreality and the Life of the Body JF - Bioenergetic Analysis JA - CJIIBA VL - 17 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - 10.30820/0743-4804-2007-17-165 UR - https://bioenergetic-analysis.com/article/view/0743-4804-2007-17-165 SP - 165-188 AB - This article is the author’s account of the experience of choosing to live the life of his body, even when that means entering a soulless truth of being. The forces which generate such a state are examined, as well as the dynamics which emerge from and maintain such a state of being. This paper attempts to provide a framework for understanding, in an immediate felt way, the experience of the person living in this reality, one common in people organized as a borderline personality. It also attempts to illuminate some of the grave difficulties faced by the therapist trying to work with people so afflicted. ER -