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This paper summarizes what autistic children have been able to reveal–most often in preverbal language–of the bodily sensations behind their symptoms: stiffening, stereotypies, loss of the feeling of a part of the body; and also of their awareness of the process of construction of a first pre-specular image of the body in the therapeutic relation, notably the eye contact relationship. They thus revealed to us the existence of a first level of abstract mental images, of a rhythmic and geometrical order necessary to the dwelling of the bodily Self as separate from the body of objects of love. A bridge is proposed with the disorders of bodily image in the clinical approach to eating disorders as well as to certain addictions, as in the writings of Sylvie Le Poulichet, especially the phenomena of “body chimeras,” opening new questions concerning the processes of intrabodily identification, and of unbodying of primary objects during the symbiotic stage, when bodily Self and subjectivation are constituted.