ABSTRACT
The body-ego-space is territorialised, deterritorialised and reterritorialised – by modalities of identification, by psychic defence mechanisms, by internalised authorities, by intense feelings, by flows of power and meaning. Bodies are made within particular constellations of object relations – the family, the army, the state, the movies, the nation, and so on. These are not, however, passive bodies which simply have a space and are a space: they also make space. They draw their maps of desire, disgust, pleasure, pain, loathing, love. They negotiate their feelings, their place in the world. In their body-ego-spaces, people speak their internal-external border dialogues. Finally, bodies occupy, produce themselves in, make and reproduce themselves in multiple real, imaginary and symbolic spaces, which are never innocent of power and resistance. 1
