No matter how I turn, my body is always here, in my egocentric space, never there

Phenomenologists, without neglecting the intentional and mental aspects of the self, draw attention to the ambiguity of the lived body in reiterated empathy. 

The lived body is that which is most intimately me or mine, but it is also an object for the other. 

Because it is so intimately me, my body cannot stand before me as an object the way that other things can. No matter how I turn, my body is always here, at the zero-point of my egocentric space, never there. It is through empathetically grasping the other’s perception of me that I am able to grasp my own lived body as an object belonging to an intersubjective world.

 In this way, my sense of self-identity in the world, even at the basic level of embodied agency, is inseparable from recognition by another, and from the ability to grasp that recognition empathetically