Mapping key co-ordinates of meaning, identity and power across sites of body and city, the author explores a wide range of critical thinking including Lefebvre and Freud and analyses the dialectic between the individual and the external.

Chapter 1 Introduction; Part 1 Geographies of the Subject; Chapter 2 Environment, Behaviour, Mind; Chapter 3 Geographies Of Human Agency; Part 2 Spaces of the Subject; Introduction2 Introduction to Part II; Chapter 4 Myth Placed; Chapter 5 Misplaced; Part 3 The Subject of Space; Introduction3 Introduction To Part III; Chapter 6 Bodies; Chapter 7 In The City; Chapter 8 Conclusion;

Steve Pile is Lecturer in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Open University and Research Associate at the Centre for Freudian Analysis and research. He is editor, with Michael Keith of Place and the Politics of identity and, with Nigel Thrift, of Mapping the Subject.