ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author focuses on some aspects of therapist’s psychic life and relationships connoted by the adjective "virtual", which defines the property emerging in their inner world, through the employment of imagination, intuition, observation, and thought. In the acquisition and consolidation of identity, the mental representation of the body-self and the space it occupies is a developmental milestone. The definition of space as a metaphorical location of the mind and container of the psycho-soma is of fundamental importance for the organisation and constitution of subjectivity, which underlies and permeates all spatial experiences. Many authors are at pains to confer on cyberspace a positive developmental value and they go as far as trying to find some common ground with psychoanalytical concepts. Cyberspace lends itself to be used as a hyper-real space where the subject can stage aspects of his internal world as though they were real things, visible and tangible objects that can be manipulated by action and interaction.
