This chapter provides the conceptual groundwork for addressing disembodiment by first clarifying what embodiment entails. Understanding how individuals normally relate to, perceive, and inhabit their bodies is essential for grasping what occurs when this connection is disrupted. The chapter introduces several complementary perspectives on embodiment that illuminate different facets of the self-body relationship. One perspective emphasizes the intersubjective nature of embodiment, drawing on research into mirror neurons and embodied simulation. It highlights the body’s capacity to resonate with others at a pre-conscious level, enabling affective responsiveness and relational attunement. Another perspective focuses on the body as the lived medium of experience—the pre-reflective structure through which the world is encountered and navigated. In this perspective, embodiment is conceived as an existential way of being-in-the-world, grounded, in Heideggerian terms, in the act of dwelling within one’s own body. A further approach considers how bodily habits and modes of expression are shaped by cultural norms and internalized expectations, framing embodiment as the process through which social meaning is inscribed and reproduced. To support this conceptual framework, the chapter introduces four key notions—body schema, body image, ownership, and agency—that clarify how the self engages with the body in both implicit and explicit ways. These concepts form the foundation for analyzing bodily selfhood and exploring how it may be destabilized or fragmented by disembodiment, whether stemming from psychopathological conditions or shaped by sociocultural forces.