This section discusses and contextualizes the main considerations on the space of life: von Uexküll's notion of Umwelt and Heidegger's criticism in the light of the distinction between physis and techne, the conceptualization of a "thymic space" in Biswanger's psychiatric theories, the place of the other in Buber's and Löwith's philosophies of Duheit and the phenomenological approach to the spatiality of imaginary objects.