ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the concept of human space as a model for psychic space, examines several types of space and assigns to each a characteristic object. The several types of space include human space, psychic space, analytic space, geopolitical space, maternal space, phallic space, and oedipal space. Psychoanalysis does not deal with the space found in nature, and certainly not die vast expanse of "outer space". Human space begins to take shape in the early relationship with the mother. Picture a cityscape like Paris, with the Eiffel tower looming over a wide expanse of scaled-down nineteenth-century buildings. Phallic space is potentially unlimited, at least in the vertical direction. Personal private space is one of at least three spaces that make up psychoanalytic space. The initial division of the analytic situation into process and setting artificially splits time and space. As in physics, it may be more fruitful to think of chunks of "space-time".
