ABSTRACT
Donald Meltzer a British psychoanalyst, referred to metaphorical spaces or claustrum pertaining to the mother’s body, where individuals can figuratively remain “mentally confined”. These are important mental constructions relating to psychological attitudes, which, of course, cannot be understood in a literary manner. Dependency is a feeling all human beings are unconsciously fated to entertain, as a direct consequence of those sheltered years of childhood. The head/breast can be represented by the attitude or behaviour present in a person or a culture often associated with “richness”: at first concrete and related to urgent need of nourishment, becomes diversified in its nuances: generosity, receptiveness, aesthetic reciprocity. The main issue is the idealisation of faeces, where the child becomes the mother’s fantasy of an envious and revengeful internal anal object. By projecting this internal object into him, she can shape him into something we have previously described using the symbolism of the “faecal phallus”.
