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The Dread of Falling: Reflections on Primitive Mental States

Author(s) : Alina Schellekes

Table of Contents

1. Early Emotional Development and Primitive Mental States - a brief perspective
2. The Dread of Falling and Dissolving
3. When Time Stood Still - Thoughts About Time in Primitive Mental States
4. Arid Mental Landscapes and Avid Cravings for Human Contact – Beckettian and Analytic Narratives
5. Daydreaming and Hypochondria - When daydreaming goes wrong and hypochondria becomes an autistic retreat
6. Sentenced to Life - Reflections on the inability to bear vitality, following the movie Turtles Can Fly
7. Stations along the Via Dolorosa of Good-Enough Endings