Following upon Chassay’s concerns about the viability of sensory communication in claustrum states, I elaborate on her distinction between sensations that serve as fuel for claustrum states and those that serve the meaning-making “containment” function. I suggest that a proto-symbolic registering of incipient meaning may germinate within sense experience itself, prior to the constellation of specific affects and symbolic meaning, as a form of intersomatic subjectivity. I argue that the interpellative aspects of social reality—”the psyche-in-the-body-in-the-social”—create a “somatic delinking” that forecloses this mutually enlivening, aesthetic exchange.