ABSTRACT
Space in analysis may be thought of as the interpersonal space between the patient and the analyst, which people try as far as possible to keep free from intrusion, interference or influence, whether from outside the analysis or from the analyst. Whatever happens within this space is normally all part of an analysis. It is also important that the analytic space does not become cluttered with the analyst’s subjectivity. For, with too much of the analyst’s personality impinging upon the analytic space, there will often be too much of background noise for the melody of transference to be truly recognized. For instance, there are some analysts who see their patients as largely the author of their own misfortune, seeing the patient’s view of the external world as if it were mostly, or even entirely, created by the patient’s own projections.
