AGORAPHOBIA with Susan Finkelstein and Jamieson Webster Friday, October 29, 2021 12:30-2:30pm Online via Zoom
It was not for a long time that I learned to appreciate the importance of phantasies and unconscious thought about life in the womb. They contain an explanation of the remarkable dread that many people have of being buried alive; and they also afford the deepest unconscious basis for the belief in survival after death, which merely represents a projection into the future of this uncanny life before birth. Moreover, the act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.” -Freud (1900-1901, S.E. Vol.5, p. 400)
Following our last presentation on claustrophobia, we will now turn to its counterpart, agoraphobia, shifting the valence from the fear of being trapped inside with no way out, to the fear of going outside, and potentially losing not only one’s way, but also one’s mind. Agoraphobic fears point to the Continue reading AGORAPHOBIA with Susan Finkelstein and Jamieson Webster Online CFS
