The referential process: cognition or incarnated consciousness?

The Author expresses his appreciation for Bucci"s work and focuses on a key point of the referential process: the transition from the subsymbolic to the non-verbal symbolic. From the Author"s point of view this transition coincides with the never ending creation of the consciousness, starting form the substratum of the relational dance. The peculiarity of this article resides in the attempt to give a concrete starting point, or better incarnated in the phenomenon of the consciousness and its emerging , differentiated from the more general mental activity that we call cognition. It is within the emerging of the consciousness from the games that finds its place the deeper meaning of the non-verbal interaction during psychotherapy, the co-construction of the psychological organism. At the end of a complex journey that includes the concept of primary consciousness by Edelman and the study of primary metaphors by lakiff and Johnson, the author circles back to Bucci and highlights a fundamental harmony of meaning.