This paper takes up Lombardi’s writing about facilitating the relationship with the concrete body and an over-privileging of working in the transference in relation to both the clinical domain and the domain of psychoanalytic thinking, in which the body has lacked sufficient elaboration. I explore a parallel between patients’ mind-body dissociations and the absence of the body as body in psychoanalytic thinking, suggesting the latter is rooted in a disavowal of uncontrollable physicality, which undergirds a tilt toward the symbolic. Using Winnicott’s depiction of processes of psyche-soma integration toward indwelling, I situate Lombardi’s clinical position relative to an exploration of a noisy versus quiet engagement of parental reverie with the child’s body and its physical handling, and discuss Lombardi’s work addressing the meeting of the representational realm and the concrete body as catalyzing a developmental thrust toward integration and, as such, as a particular kind of self-other relation.