Archives par mot-clé : Archaic fantasy

Emmanuelle Boë, Marie-Jeanne Guedj-Bourdiau: the enclave and the Claustrum in school phobia

Adolescent school phobia is associated with an anxiety so great that the resulting inhibition becomes an obstacle to the patient’s access to a fantasy life. It is often coupled with the conduct of at-home claustration, which calls our attention to the archaic fantasy of the Claustrum developed by D. Meltzer. This is a form of intrusive projective identification that thwarts the oedipal conflict by opposing the differentiation process. We will develop these notions using a clinical case.

Adolescence, 2023, 41, 1, 167-177.