The Claustrum: An Investigation of Claustrophobic Phenomena

Author(s) : Donald Meltzer

The Claustrum: An Investigation of Claustrophobic Phenomena

Book Details

  • Publisher : Harris Meltzer Trust
  • Published : 2018
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 208
  • Category :
    Psychoanalysis
  • Catalogue No : 93695
  • ISBN 13 : 9781912567270
  • ISBN 10 : 191256727X

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

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