THE PLACE OF SPACE IN SOUL, OR RE-VISIONING PSYCHOTHREAPEUTIC FANTAZIES OF SPACE AND BODY

Text topic: Studies

Text author: Велимир Б. Поповић

Fantasy of space plays an important role in therapeutic psychology and covers almost anything occurring inside subjects of psychotherapy – we work on the processes which develop inside a family making it dysfunctional; we work through and clarify the primitive mental states which occur in the unconscious of the analyzand; we disentangle the problems heppeing within the transference-countertransference relation; we help people who find themselves in blind alleys; use analysis in order to aid a client to return projections back into him/herself; we apply body techniques to discover where split up traumas are hiding themselves in the body etc. Concepts so precious to therapists, without which their work in inconceivable – projection, introjection, internalization, withdrawal, wholeness, insight, reflection, embodiment, transference, replacement, substitution, regression, unconscious, subconscious, scape goat, triangulation, contact, phenomenological field, container, growth, real-unreal, subject-object and so forth – are derived from the idea of space or have relied on he idea of space. This work deals with hermeneutics of this dominant fantasy of space, which can then be used to develop an quite different paradigm serving as a phenomenological dwelling to above mentioned processes and contents of our therapeutic work.