The author presents a reticular model of embodied subjectivity as an expansion of earlier hydraulic, plastic, and resonant models. Three vignettes taken from early life experience serve to illustrate how a reticular model recontextualizes the processes represented in earlier models in a way that demonstrates how unconscious emotional experience emerges from a continuously fluid register of multimodal embodied experience in interaction with a particular socially ordering context offering categories and hierarchies that can valorize or abject. Applying this model to the experiences described in the vignettes raises questions and possibilities for how intersectional categories and hierarchies of power emerge from and are shaped by the interaction of body and social context.