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This discussion of Daniel Posner’s paper has two purposes. First, it affirms Joe Lichtenberg’s lifelong forward thinking contributions to the theory and practice of psychoanalysis. In “The Psychoanalytic Situation of Infancy” he redefined infant and subsequent development in terms of the non-dynamic unconscious and the bodily self. At the end of his life, these two components of his contributions led to a redefinition of some mental pathologies making psychoanalysis applicable to those previously considered unsuitable for psychoanalytic clinical work such as the neuroatypical. Second, this discussion suggests additional possibilities for integrating and using the concepts of embodiment and subsymbolic memory in psychoanalytic theory and practice. They provide an additional language to understand and communicate with patients: brief clinical moments are illustrative.