[Space and imagery, the individual in space, space in the individual]

Abstract

Starting from the phenomenological analysis of perception and of representation made by Jaspers, and from a poem of the German poet Mathias Claudius, the author displays rapidly the emergency of the subject in the space, with the progressive development of the corporal sketch. If the child learns with difficulty to recognize other people, he will have need of a much longer time to recognize his own corporal unity in the mirror stage. That first recognition of his unity is imaginary and creates the interior space. With other people's presence, a relation of reciprocity settles, and the desire of the other one appears. Since Freud, the notion of desire is well known, it has allowed to understand better relation between outside space, where other people stay, and inside space of the subject and the whole relational dynamics between themselves. Jung has completed that analysis by showing the role of archetypical images in psychic life; he has emphasized "I" dialectics and the Unconscious. Phenomenological analysis of the meeting allows a better knowledge of the role of the sexual body in the exchange with the other one, mediated by the look as well as by the language, but also opening the subject to the gap of incompleteness. Our being-in-situation makes us discovering the distance that can only be filled up by Love. That limitation of being and that displacement in Love union have been praised by poets and celebrated by mystics.