ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on touches that a central issue in geography and its relevance in the field of geographical methodology. It combines several perspectives, firstly, geography and psychoanalysis. By adopting an interdisciplinary approach, engage transitionality with a geographical concern so as to combine haptic geography and psychoanalysis into a haptic regime of knowledge. Then it brings together different national academic cultures: works in psychoanalysis in French and English as well as works in English-speaking geography about fieldwork and interviews with French field-geographers. The chapter begins with various aspects, including methodological, theoretical and epistemological issues, of field-based geography associated with this transitional framework, providing an understanding of geography as transitional such as based on a haptic regime of knowledge. Transitionality is then a relevant foundation of a haptic regime of knowledge, similar to Freudo-Lacanism for feminist poststructuralist geographers examining the scopic regime of knowledge of traditionally masculinist geography.
