The ego is first and foremost a body-ego; it is not merely a surface entity, but it is itself the projection of a surface.5 If we wish to find an anatomical analogy for it we can easily identify it with the “cortical homunculus” of the anatomists, which stands on its head in the cortex, sticks its heels into the air, faces backwards and, as we know, has its speech-area on the left-hand side.
