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This is the third in a series of papers devoted to developing the psychoanalytic theory of the self as embodied with reference to previous articulated concepts of body self and body image. Aspects of the body image are explored both in relation to the concept of the body self and clinical influence and expression. Specific areas explored are sensoritonic orientation, issues related to psychic size, experiences of body distortion (including phantom limb phenomena), disturbances of body image in psychopathological conditions and regressive states. Related to body image and issues of bodily integrity, the development and phenomenology of body boundary issues are explored and their clinical implications argued with special reference to aspects of inferiority-exteriority in relation to psychosomatic and other clinical manifestations. These parameters can find expression in regard to the body as a whole or in reference to selected body sectors. The body buffer zone is related to boundary variables and can express a variety of dynamic and defensive patterns. The relation of specifically bodily related phenomena to the core concept of the self and their implications for psychoanalytic theory are explored.