Donald Meltzer talks about one of Melanie Klein’s most famous and complex concepts: projective identification. Meltzer explored her idea through his own formulation of the ‘claustrum,’ a psychical state that he describes in this presentation given in 1990.
Donald Meltzer, who made a major contribution to child psychotherapy through his teaching, supervision and writings, died on 13 august 2004 at the age of 81.
The concept of the claustrum is an unconscious phantasy of a space inside the body of the internal mother that has been forcibly entered and occupied. With this concept, Meltzer has elaborated Klein’s(1946) idea of projective identification in three ways.
1) He emphasizes that this phantasy space is inside the internal maternal object, and therefore suffuses all aspects of mental experience.
2) He describes this space as characterized by particular qualities specific to the imagined compartments of the space, which he divides into three: head/breast, genital and rectum.
3) He changes the term used to designate the mode of entry into the object from excessive projective identification to intrusive projective identification, since he wishes to emphasize not so much the idea of frequency or quantity, as the idea of the force and quality of intrusion, whether by violence, stealth, lies or trickery.
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