ABSTRACT
Considering space from a psychoanalytic perspective, we are called to wonder about the nature of our experience of the physical world. What does the clinical evidence suggest to us about the nature of space as a human experience? In this chapter I explore how psychoanalysis and particularly object relations theory has viewed this question. I examine the notion of space as a relational construct governed by the earliest object acquisition. Then, clinical material is presented to demonstrate how the internal object world affects the perception and use of space in the transference. Finally, I explore what these uses of space in the transference mean for us as clinicians.
