Eloquence of silence

The body never stays silent; what varies is our ability to decipher its eloquent silence or interpret its desperate screams.

Eloquence of silence

We listen to words while ignoring symphonies. Our ears, trained to capture articulated language, remain deaf to the most ancient and constant discourse: that of the body. This tireless transmitter broadcasts without rest, sending signals that exceed any conscious censorship, revealing truths that words would never confess.

Corporeality constitutes our first mode of symbolic existence, preceding speech and more honest than it. Paradoxically, the more we try to silence the body, the more eloquent its manifestations become: the physical symptom shouts what the mouth keeps quiet. Blushing betrays, trembling confesses, muscular tension reveals the internal battles we wage against ourselves. No social mask manages to completely silence this living text.

The contemporary analyst knows they must develop bifocal listening: simultaneously attending to verbal content and the bodily narrative that accompanies, contradicts, or complements it. When both registers diverge, the body often carries the truth closest to the unconscious. Effective interpretation requires this double reading, this deciphering of a primitive alphabet that precedes any linguistic elaboration. Bodily silence contains the primordial grammar of being.

Psychotherapy

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