ABSTRACT:
This paper addresses the theme of the constitution of the notion of space in psychoanalysis, discussing the relations between perception and representation from the viewpoint of boundary instability phenomena related to the instinctual field (such as hallucinations, depersonalization, theUnheimlich, mimetic processes, or even psychotic roaming). It proposes to consider spatiotemporal relations at the human level as an effect of the subject’s position in language, problematizing the function of repression as a producer of boundaries that define and stabilize the subject’s relations in his perceptual experience.
Keywords:
space; psychosis; mimicry; perception; representation.