‘Body’ has an essential role in understanding hypochondria in the psychoanalytic approach. As in Freud’s point of view, Lacan argued that the subject’s relation to his/her body is not a pre-given; in the beginning, there is no psychic representation of the body. The medical approach evaluates the symptomatic body as the biological body; nevertheless, it is the body incorporating the language order. Hence, hypochondriac symptoms in a neurotic individual are not based on the biology itself but his/her own ‘understanding’ of the biological anatomy. In this essay, it is posited that there is a dialectic relationship between mind and body by describing Lacan’s ideas on the body in hypochondria, a condition currently referred to as health anxiety. Lacan’s perspective on the body enables us to rethink hypochondria more dynamically and interactively by moving beyond binary oppositions.