"THE POTENTIAL SPACE FROM THE PLOT OF THE MYTHIC DISCOURSE"

Lic. Eliana Rache - Sao Paulo, Brasil

This paper proposes another glance at Winnicott's potential space concept: the one of the myth. As the myth is a narrative discourse it allows the history's elaboration. The human suffering, generated by its lacks and the corresponding carrying through, is the theme worked by the Plato's Eros' birth myth. The author uses another myth, the androgyne one, which is centered in the same subject as Plato's one but it arrives to different conclusions. While the androgyne myth obturates the human lack by the re-encountering with the lost half, the Eros' birth transforms it by creating the third one, another and a third space. These myths are articulated with the potential space and trended to Eros' birth.

KEY WORDS: potential space-myth- space- the third one- the other