The concept of the “self” is proposed as a potential mediator in the questions raised by Mark Solms regarding bodily representations in the brain/mind and their relationship to consciousness. The insights of mid-twentieth-century psychoanalytic researchers and of Kohut's self-psychology are used as a springboard for correlations with modern-day findings of affective neuroscience. Their addition may shift the enduring Freudian metapsychology into a more workable relationship to the neurosciences, and vice versa.