Here, I explore a form of self-touch carefully documented by Winnicott in observing how the infant engages the transitional object. In touching oneself, one is simultaneously both subject and object of touch, a template for experiencing oneself as subject and object of intentions, feelings, and motivations, or intersubjectivity. Philosophers maintain that touch confers a sense of reality or grounding to perceptual experience. 1Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Tufts University, Boston, MA, United States.