Abstract: Body perception has analysed by motor activity. This is largely the result of Le Boulch's work on psychokinetics and psychomotor education, which made new levels available for the description of body schema activity beyond that of conscious movements. Reflex movements, involuntary gestures, and emotions are all evidence of the pre-attentional activation and preparation for motor actions. Body perception is built from the interaction between the body and the world. With this in mind, we would like to draw attention to the current paradoxical gap in the literature that exists between the living and the perceived body. We then propose a means of overcoming this gap through a description of the activation of the living body and its emersion at the level of perception. Enaction, in Francisco Varela’s groundbreaking work, explains how neurodynamics bring emergences from our living body to our consciousness by awakening and activating our potential capacities. In this sense enaction is a neurodynamics, while emersion ensures the bottom-up transition of implicit information from the living body (Leib) to consciousness and to the attentive perception of the lived body (Korper).

Key words: body, perception, enaction, emersion