Summary

This text explains how the body is understood in the theoretical perspective of thephenomenology of corporal existence, and how the corporal-being-in-the-world isthe starting point in the phenomenology of the body. The modes of expression ofthe different notions of “body” are identified: Körper (naturalistic attitude), bodyas an owned, thought of, and objective thing; Leib (personalistic attitude), body asone’s own living body, phenomenological, animated, agent, and subjective; and thechiasmatic body enabling us to understand the incarnation of subjectivity. Likewise,some features which identify the corporal-being-in-the-world are presented: the bodyas our anchor to the world; the body as a center of orientation carrying in itself the‘ground zero’; the body as a subject of capacities; the body as a mode of expression;the body as a subject of perception; the body, tied to the world, understood as asubject of space and time; hence, the body is intercorporality