Potential space and love |
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| Affiliation: | 1. School of Geography, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, United Kingdom;2. Department of Geography, University of Hull, Cottingham Road, Kingston upon Hull, United Kingdom;1. Key Laboratory of Gas and Fire Control for Coal Mines, China University of Mining and Technology. Xuzhou, Jiangsu 221116, China;2. School of Safety Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, Jiangsu 221116, China;3. Lu’an Mining (Group) Co., Ltd., Changzhi, Shanxi 046299, China;4. School of Mechanics and Civil Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology. Xuzhou, Jiangsu 221116, China;5. State Key Laboratory of Coking Coal Exploitation and Comprehensive Utilization, China Pingmei Shenma Group, Pingdingshan 467000, China;1. Cancer Research UK Beatson Institute, Garscube Estate, Switchback Road, Glasgow G61 1BD, UK;2. Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK |
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| Abstract: | Potential space is the term that Winnicott uses to describe the space of good parenting, therapy, creativity and aliveness. In this paper we associate this space with love. Love is not subjective, not an emotion that one subject feels for an object or even for another subject. Love is the primordial experience of infinite space; it is not an experience of unity but a meeting of sameness and difference. In order to distinguish love from the desire that a subject might have for one thing or another, infinite space needs to be distinguished from the familiar locational form of Euclidean space. We make this argument through a case study from our research on student–teacher relations, and through the theoretical work of Buber, Winnicott and Merleau-Ponty. |
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