Where are we when we listen to music? Music and psychoanalytic subject theory

The question of music in the human experience can only be answered if body, music, language and subject are determined in their interconnectedness. Since psychoanalytic research on the interplay between the body-self and music has hardly any suggestions, the question is first outlined with Schopenhauer. Then it is shown that music and language are not only structurally different from each other but that they also relate differently-rather abstracting (language) or organizing and stimulating (music)-to the body-self. The experience of intimacy and vitalization, being specific for music, results from the synchronization of music and body-self. This view is illustrated once at the beginning of human cultural development in the Paleolithic Period and then at maturation processes catalyzed by music in puberty.