ABSTRACT
Competition-related vertigo can assume different forms but always remains the equivalent of anxiety related to oedipal rivalry, and in particular to the phantasy of surpassing one’s rival; it is, for instance, the vertigo associated with climbing up a ladder, of being ‘too’ high while imagining others well below one, of overtaking people in a car or in some other way, or, in certain cases, of watching another person approach the void. In the last case, in fact, the person who has vertigo imagines that the other is about to fall: he is dropping him in his imagination.
