The Claustro-Agoraphobic Dilemma in Psychoanalysis

Susan Finkelstein is Faculty Member and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Contemporary Freudian Society and the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. She is Director of Understanding Primitive Mental States and an associate board member of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. She practices psychoanalysis, supervision, and couples therapy in New York City. Heinz Weiss, MD, is Head of the Department of Psychosomatic Medicine at the Robert-Bosch-Clinic, Stuttgart, Germany, Head of the Medical Department, and Member of the Directorate of the Sigmund Freud-Institute, Frankfurt, Germany. He teaches at the University of Tübingen and chairs the Education Section of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis.

Introduction Foreword 1. The Genesis of Agoraphobia 2. Claustrophobia 3. Agoraphobia and its Relation to Hysterical Attacks and to Traumas 4. Anxieties Underlying Phobia of Sexual Intercourse in a Woman 5. The Relation of Anal Masturbation to Projective Identification 6. The Suffocating Super-Ego: Psychotic Break and Claustrophobia 7. The Schizoid Mode of Being and the Space-Time Continuum (Before Metaphor) 8. A Theory of Psychic Retreats 9. Monstrous Phantasies and Monstrous Gods: Claustro-Agoraphobic Anxiety in Hesiod and Klein 10. Claustro-Agoraphobia - The Impact of Concrete Thinking on the Analyst's Internal Space 11. Intimacy and Loss of Orientation 12. Claustro-Agoraphobia in times of Covid-19: on the Problem of Making Analytic Contact when Using the Telephone and Internet for Analysis During the Coronavirus Pandemic 13. Conclusion