ABSTRACT
The term “The psychoanalytic space” may represent both a concrete, physical, space, the space where the patient and the therapist meet, and a metaphor describing a psychological space, a “space” within the space. The aim is to provide “the psychoanalytic space” with the status of a theoretically anchored concept. The psychoanalytic space is precisely an unstructured situation that opens up a path to the individual’s “private” emotions and fantasies. Within the analytic space, on the contrary, there is no facilitated stimulus expression that actively shapes what is projected. The intensity of projection is increased, and it activates private emotions and fantasies more strongly. The psychoanalytic space is so to say a purely “projective space”. From the moment the parties “step into” the psychoanalytic space the perspective is altered. The transference is the point the psychoanalytic therapy process revolves around. Hence it comes natural to state that the psychoanalytic space is the space of transference.
