The Claustrum: An Investigation of Claustrophobic Phenomena

by Donald Meltzer

Overview

Using the Kleinian concept of projective-identification, with special reference to intrusive identification with internal objects, this work examines claustrophobic phenomena and its relations to the treatment of borderline and adolescent patients

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781780494234
Publisher:	Harris Meltzer Trust
Publication date:	02/03/2011
Series:	The Harris Meltzer Trust Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	202
Sales rank:	739,643
File size:	566 KB

About the Author

Donald Meltzer (1923-2004) is widely known as a psychoanalyst and teacher throughout Europe and South America. He is the author of many works on psychoanalytic theory and practice, including 'The Psychoanalytical Process', 'Sexual States of Mind', 'Explorations in Autism', 'The Kleinian Development', 'Dream Life', 'Studies in Extended Metapsychology', and 'The Claustrum', all published by Karnac Books.

Table of Contents

Foreword Meg Harris Williams PART ONE: BACKGROUND AND INTRODUCTION Introduction 1. Melanie Klein's vision of projective identification 2. Review of earlier publications PART TWO: COMPARTMENTS OF THE CLAUSTRUM 3. The geographic dimension of the mental apparatus 4. The compartments of the internal mother 5. Life in the Claustrum 6. Technical problems of the Claustrum PART THREE: IMPLICATIONS OF THE CLAUSTRUM 7. Emergence from the Claustrum versus shift of consciousness 8. The role of the Claustrum in the onset of schizophrenia 9. Concerning the ubiquity of projective identification 10. Symptomatology versus characterology - the psychoanalytical process 11. The Claustrum and adolescence 12. The Claustrum and the perversions/addictions 13. The Claustrum and politics Addendum - Macbeth's equivocation, Shakespeare's ambiguity Meg Harris Williams References Index