The claustrum : an investigation of claustrophobic phenomena / Donald Meltzer ; with an essay by Meg Harris Williams : Macbeth's equivocation, Shakespeare's ambiguity.

Includes index.

Melanie Klein's vision of projective identification -- Review of earlier publications -- The geographic dimension of the mental apparatus -- The compartments of the internal mother -- Life in the claustrum -- Technical problems of the claustrum -- Emergence from the claustrum versus shift consciousness -- The role of the claustrum in the onset of schizophrenia -- Concerning the ubiquity of projective identification -- Symptomatology versus characterology -- the psycho-analytical process -- The claustrum and adolescence -- The claustrum and the perversions/addictions -- The claustrum and politics -- Macbeth's equivocation, Shakespeare's ambiguity.

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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.

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