Abstract This article proposes a model for exploring the psycho-geographical home incorporating psychoanalytical and geographical perspectives as significant elements for understanding homemaking on the Israeli frontier. It seeks to understand the deeper roots of homemaking in the self through the psychoanalytic lens of object relations, beginning with a brief overview of the psychoanalytic literature connected to notions of home and homemaking. We find that homemaking serves as a mediating practice throughout life, because it projects a person’s internal home representation onto the home itself. The gaps found between the representations of a person’s internal home and that person’s physical/external home are discussed as a ‘potential space’. Residents of Israel’s Arava desert are the subjects of our examination of the multidimensional aspects of home and homemaking, as reflected verbally and visually in interviews, self-directed photographs of the participants’ home space and dynamic observations of their homes.

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心理地理之家：前沿的“家政”

摘要 本文提出了一种探索心理地理家园的模型，将心理分析和地理视角作为理解以色列边境家庭制作的重要元素。它试图通过客体关系的精神分析视角来理解自我中家政的更深层根源，首先简要概述与家政和家政概念相关的精神分析文献。我们发现，做家务在整个生活中都是一种调解实践，因为它将一个人的内在家庭表征投射到家庭本身上。在一个人的内部家庭和该人的物理/外部家庭的表现之间发现的差距被称为“潜在空间”。