[Organ worlds: basic principles of analytic body psychology].

In this article, the author introduces the expression organ fantasies, pathological zones in the body self and organ world with the intention of formulating an analytical psychology of the body. He presents the view that a person's own body has the significance of a primary object which, under normal circumstances, enables a person to make several important basic experiences, such as the experience of being alive, of having a body, and of being separate from others. On the basis of this work with borderline patients, the author demonstrates that the pathological zones in the body self can be understood by means of a phase model and that the illness-producing effect of a pathological organ world is related to a defective symbolization of experiences. The author suspects that the analytical psychology of the body can be applied to psychosomatic illness as well.