This article argues that I [ich] should be understood as a body-based experience. The starting point is Freud´s contention that I is first and foremost a bodily I. Freud saw the lower part of I and mind, what he termed it, as constituted by primordial feelings conserning the state of the body. The author further elaborates on this idea in light of later research and clinical experience. A clinical vignette is used to illustrate that changes in sense of self in the analytic process include bodily changes as in ways of walking, one’s posture, breathing and facial expression.