ABSTRACT
Video conferencing allows us to offer psychoanalysis and psychotherapy to previously inaccessible patients. Dimension of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, little theorized or even mentioned, that is a ritualized bodily encounter with the physical space of treatment. One can imagine that psychotherapy and psychoanalysis affect the structure of subjectivity in part through repeated sharing of physical gestures and rituals and physical space. The lack of theorizing about the physical space in which psychoanalysis and psychotherapy take place is due to our inheritance of a Cartesian disembodied and decontextualized model of the mind. The meaning that emerges between two talking heads on a computer screen is essentially the same as that which emerges from two talking heads that share a physical office. Several academic trends, including those in cognitive science and communication studies, are also challenging the disembodied and decontextualized model of the mind and communication. Human identity begins by appropriating its own body and, given time, can appropriate expanding mediums and spaces.
