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heart; a presence where a lived takes place. A lived, because what echoes in us (inside ofour own body) before a beautiful landscape or a welcoming place is not merely somethingwe see, but rather, the very space existing intra-corporeally, blending itself into me, inan intertwining which is the depiction of the non-depictable. 73 To speak of an inside ofthe body, of an unconscious of the body, is thus speaking of a body that acquires itsidentity in complicity with space. That is to say, it acquires identity in the mode of beinga place where space extends itself, extending the limits of the body. That this body is, forMerleau-Ponty, the place where memory happens 74 can no longer surprise us. Being inthe world signifies living a space which is always for us a field of vision and a fieldcontaining both the future and the past. Memory as such is proof of a shared belongingof body and space to one temporal schema, 75 where it is discovered that allrepresentation depends on a previous ‘being affected,’ which demands constant mediation.It is in this context that we may say that “such or such other place is attractive to us onlyin so far as it contains some part of the dream,” 76 in the sense that this attraction isgrounded on an original pact. On the one hand, the inside of the body already reflects theoutside of space, in a mixture of strangeness and familiarity. On the other hand, the outsideof space already entails the inside of the body, thereby making the body, in a uniquemoment, body and space.73747576Ibid., 248.Merleau-Ponty, Résumés, 71-72.Cf. Merleau-Ponty, Le visible et l’invisible, 247-250. Cf. Merleau-Ponty, Phénoménologie, 306.Richir, “Corps, espace et architecture,” 38.124