ABSTRACT
The domain of thought may be conceived of as a space occupied by no-things; the space occupied by a particular no-thing is marked by a sign such as the words ‘chair’, or ‘cat’ or ‘point’ or ‘dog’. The quality of any constant conjunction is a function of the relationships ‘within’ the conjunction together with the function of its relationship with other constant conjunctions. This chapter discusses the problem of the ground for projective and rigid motion transformations as if it were stable and corresponded to what is regarded in classical analysis as the analytic situation. The idea implicit in the theory of transference is that the analyst is the person onto whom the analysand transfers his images. The ‘symptoms’ as observed clinically can be represented ‘spatially’ in the geometric scheme by points that belong to the projected transformation. The analytic situation requires greater width and depth than can be provided by a model from Euclidean space.
