 Merleau-Ponty (1945, 415) suggests that the other’s gaze can motivate this kind of self-consciousness only if I already have a sense of my own visibility to the other. This sense of my own visibility, however, is immediately linked with the pre-reflective, proprioceptive-kinaesthetic sense of my body, an insight that goes back to Husserl’s analysis (mentioned above). Merleau-Ponty notes its connection to the infant’s capability for imitation, and this is carried forward to more recent advances in developmental psychology (see Merleau-Ponty, 1945, 165, 404–405; 2010; Gallagher and Zahavi 2012; Zahavi 1999, 171–72). Indeed, although much emphasis has fallen on vision and the gaze of the other in phenomenological accounts of self-consciousness, proprioceptive and tactile experiences have a developmental primacy and emerge in the pre-natal environment in ways that allow for very basic relational experiences of self-movement versus movement of the mother’s body (Lymer 2010; 2014; Ciaunica &amp; Crucianelli 2019; Ciaunica &amp; Fotopoulou 2016), and continue to play a significant role in embodied interactions with caregivers during early infancy. In this respect, intersubjective/intercorporeal experiences can affect pre-reflective body self-awareness. This complicates any claim that the pre-reflective experience of body ownership is primarily for self-preservation (Ciaunica &amp; Crucianelli 2019; de Vignemont 2018).