The body, as a psychoanalytic object, presents in the consulting room as unmediated affect. Unmediated affect is a physical response that has not yet been represented via emotional links with psychic functioning. As a result, rather than being embodied, patients who have suffered childhood trauma frequently present with dissociated body mind states and disrupted emotional relations. Bion’s links of love, hate, and curiosity will be explored as examples of embodied states using a clinical case.