ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses a case material in which the implications of the concepts of attachment, proxemics and affective distance were connected, and were then related to the subjective construction of space. Quirón is an intelligent, cultured 47-year-old man who works as a biologist at a prestigious pharmaceutical company. There are four issues which occur repeatedly in the analysis of Quirón: the feeling of being hurt, the predominance of the visual sense, the issue of distance as a regulator of his social relationships, and finally the issue of his argumentative personality, aroused by the permanent threat to his personal space, which leads him to be constantly on the alert in order to protect it. In the story written by Quirón, space, distance and gaze are permanently present. His psoriasis plays an essential role, since it performs the same function that in the story is attributed to the fire which makes the plane go down.
