Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Figures and Tables -- Figure 1 Diametric Dualism -- Figure 2 Concentric Dualism -- Figure 3 Yin/Yang -- Figure 4 The Scream by Edvard Munch -- Figure 5 The Kiss by Gustav Klimt -- Figure 6 Last Judgement by Hans Memling -- Table 1 Key aspects of a spatial-phenomenology in relation to primordiality -- Table 2. Key aspects of a spatial-phenomenology for Gilligan's (1982) -- Table 3 Freud's death drive and diametric space -- Table 4 The different conceptions of subjectivity -- Table 5 The spatial discourse of implication in yin/yang -- Table 6 Key dimensions of a proposed psychoanalytic graphology -- Table 7 Schema structure-content relativity -- Table 8 The entailments of diametric and concentric spaces -- Part I Setting the Stage for the Primordial Dance -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Dimensions of primordiality -- Chapter 2 A Spatial-Phenomenological Approach -- 2.1 A search for blind spots in the spatial assumption structure of a text -- 2.2 The need to develop spatial structural criteria for priority of some modes of experience -- 2.3 A different, complementary phase to the narratives of lived experience -- 2.4 The need for a primordial cross-cultural phenomenology to go beyond ethnocentrism -- 2.5 Dynamic a priori structures of diametric and concentric space -- Chapter 3 Participants in the Primordial Dance: Diametric and Concentric Space -- 3.1 Primordiality as a cross-cultural truth -- 3.2 Primordiality as a dynamic unity -- 3.3 Features of the primordial dance -- 3.3.1 First entailment of the relative differences between concentric and diametric spaces -- 3.3.2 Second entailment of the relative differences between concentric and diametric spatial -- 3.3.3 Third entailment of the relative differences between concentric and diametric spaces.

Part II Spatial-Phenomenology: Interpersonal and Intrapsychic Dimensions -- Chapter 4 A Spatial-Phenomenological Reinterpretation of the Relational Subject -- 4.1 Diametric and concentric spatial frames for moral choice -- 4.2 Beyond socio-cultural conditioning in Gilligan's relational pragmatism -- 4.3 Extending some postmodern implications for Gilligan's relational pragmatism -- 4.4 Towards a primordial, cross-cultural extension of an ethic of care -- Chapter 5 A Spatial-Phenomenological Reinterpretation of the Psychoanalytic Subject -- 5.1 Key limitations in critique of Freud's causal-temporal claims -- 5.2 Projection of the diametric spatial structure in obsessional neurosis -- 5.3 Primordiality as a more fundamental experience -- 5.4 Primordiality as a more fundamental experience -- Chapter 6 Projections of Diametric Oppositional Structures in the Phenomenology of Psychosis -- 6.1 Uncovering the first entailment of the relative differences between concentric and diametric -- 6.2 Uncovering the second entailment of the relative differences between concentric and diametric -- 6.3 Uncovering the third entailment of the relative differences between concentric and diametric -- 6.4 A spatial-phenomenological reinterpretation of Freud's Eros and Thanathos -- Part III Spatial-Phenomenology as a Discourse Prior to Language and Myth -- Chapter 7 Transcending Subjectivity and Myth in Search of Meaning -- 7.1 A spatial-phenomenological reinterpretation of the central archetype -- 7.2 A dynamic mandala underlying the unconscious world -- 7.3 Beyond structuralism in a spatial-phenomenological reinterpretation -- 7.4 Structure-content relativity in projection -- Chapter 8 Uncovering a Primordial Phenomenological Spatial Discourse Prior to Language -- 8.1 Modernism and postmodernism.

8.2 Diametric and concentric archetypal spaces in the modernist art of Munch's The Scream -- 8.3 Diametric and concentric archetypal spaces in the modernist art of Klimt's The Kiss -- 8.4 A spatial-phenomenological reinterpretation of the archetypal structure of yin/yang -- Chapter 9 Uncovering a Primordial Spatial Discourse Prior to Language -- 9.1 Beyond Foucault's structure of exclusion to a prelinguistic discourse of diametric space -- 9.2 Beyond reification: A spatial-phenomenological reinterpretation of Derrida's deconstruction -- 9.3 Beyond a split between sense and concept of self in Jungian psychology -- 9.4 Concentric and diametric structures as a primordial sense -- Part IV Primordial Structures Prior to Subjectivity: Projections of a Dynamic A Priori Structure -- Chapter 10 Early Heidegger's Search for Concrete, Dynamic A Priori Structures of Being-in-the-World -- 10.1 Dasein's existential spatiality in contrast to categories -- 10.2 Concentric and diametric projections as a structural expression of Heidegger's Angst -- 10.3 Transcending the horizon of diametric space in Being and Time -- 10.4 Care and the temporal horizon of transcendence in early Heidegger -- Chapter 11 A Space Prior to Subjectivity as Cognition and Pure Reason -- 11.1 Diametric spatial projection as an ontology underlying cognitive science -- 11.2 The silent projection of a necessary condition of diametric -- 11.3 Developing a space for more primordial structures than mind -- 11.4 Uncovering a primordial spatial structure prior to Johnson and Lakoff's image schemata -- References -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Names.