ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors address the concept of space–time in relation to Wilfred Bion’s theory of the analytic field. The setting of the analysis itself organises the spacing that is meant to help restore a less anxious sense of space and time, to turn back the hands of the clock if they have been moved forward and vice versa. The possibility this space-field-as-process has of forming and of functioning so as to facilitate the construction of subjectivity depends on how the analyst concretely regulates the breaches or adherence to forms of purely notional spacing that are given from the outset. In the S. Freudian model the analytic space has its limits in the psyche of the patient; in Bion’s concept of the analytic field it is extended to include the couple. The aesthetic experience is one of being in unison, of sharing the same space–time, carrying out the same spacing in the perceptual chaos of reality.
