This article introduces two papers and a discussion focusing on the theoretical innovation in working on a new organization of body-mind and surface-depth. Papers by Roth and Freedgood are discussed and linked to feminist work on the body and on domestic work in gardening and décor, and in relation to emblematic adornments to the body. Connections are made to feminist psychoanalysis. Elise's discussion and its developmental implications are also discussed. It is suggested that this set of papers addresses new clinical and theoretical ideas in female subjectivity, psychoanalytic studies of the body and materiality, as well as relationships among women.