This work is based upon those young adults whose bodies are disavowed, as a result of specific difficulties of integration of the sexed body, which are due to failures in the primary relationship. The author argues that among them there might also be a specific disavowal on the part of the mother of the functioning of the infantile body as separate and different from her own. The author investigates the most appropriate ways to deal with those pathological issues. These patients' way of moving, posture and motor tonicity convey embodied messages, capable of communicating a still non-represented mental functioning to the analyst. Considering them as figurative outlines with a communicative potential allows the analyst who is able to grasp such embodied messages to give words to the disavowed body.

KEYWORDS: Body, body as internal object, body-mind relationship, rejected body, representability, symbolization.