ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the political and social contexts of understanding boundaries and borders and the philosophical understanding of categories of thinking as containers and a critique of the geometrisation and rationalisation of the experience of space It discusses a feminist critique of the involvement of depth psychology in maintaining traditional, societal discourses and a psychotherapeutic analysis of the defensiveness of psychotherapy as a discipline. The chapter discusses the shadows of the containing space that reveal some of its negative aspects or possible implications. The psyche-house as described by psychoanalysis has a structure, including the walls and layers. The individual came to be seen as possibly spatially ‘containable’, and this was established as the main aim of psychotherapeutic work. For successful and effective psychotherapeutic work, impingements may be as important as boundaries. For instance, some unplanned changes and unexpected events may bring surprisingly good results for the treatment.
