The “Out-of-Body Experience” – A New Orientation for the Clinic of the Body?

This article presents two hypotheses. Firstly, it argues that today’s rise in so-called “out-of-body experience” phenomena is of clinical interest, and that Lacan’s theorization of the Ego [ego] [1] may prove helpful in their exploration. Secondly, that its emergence is correlative to the current changes in our relation to the body, changes which are tending towards distancing.