Whether we’re walking or writing, we are always experiencing what the phenomenologists call ‘embodied cognition’. This is one of the things Freud adverted to when he claimed in a late, oracular note that the psyche is ‘extended’. By claiming that the mind is extended in space, he was identifying it with the body. Adding that the mind ‘knows nothing about’ its extension, he also linked the body to the unconscious. As though the body thinks without the mind’s noticing.
