ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author explains the relation between place and the human that is also at work in his explorations would be to refuse to recognize a key element in the structure of place and in the character of human being. The concept of objective space is necessary for any grasp of the concept of subjective space as such, but additionally, only in so far as we can make use of the notion of objective space in relation to particular subjective spaces. Only if one has recourse to the concept of objective space can one begin to explain how a particular orientation and a particular set of behavioural and experiential capacities can give rise to a particular grasp of spatiality. Indeed, the representation or map only gives access to space in conjunction with the location or position of the creature that has access to that representation or map.
