Body and Virtual Space in Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis
What are the original dimensions of"virtual space"?Is the artificial digital space constructed by technological devices all its signification?In this paper,the author discusses this question by drawing on the intellectual resources of phenomenology and psychoanalysis.In fact,Merleau-Ponty's distinction between the virtual and the real body gives a whole new meaning to"virtual space",pointing to the space in which the virtual body unfolds,i.e.,a potentiality inherent in our own bodies.Winnicott traces the original form of this potentiality to the mother's face,which provides the subject with a virtual transitional space and allows the subject to access its initial creativity.Prior to the formation of this transitional space,the child is indistinguishable from space,and the subject can only project a virtual pseudo-reality to protect itself.As an ob-ject of protection,the Freudian ego is derived from the projection of the origins of bodily sensa-tions.Anzieu develops this idea through the concept of the"moi-peau",which,in line with the virtual transitional space,divides the inside and outside of the ego,and is a virtual barrier that supports mental projections.When this space is threatened,the barrier function of the self fails and the self forms a defensive shell.The author argue that this mechanism of formation and transformation of virtual space also applies at the level of society and the state.
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