ABSTRACT
This chapter considers a paradigmatic characteristic of pre-conceptual traumas, something regarded as a form of “time entrapment”. It means, in few words, that traumas imprison the ego by unconsciously forcing it to repeat eternally the same childhood patterns, very often at the immense cost of total loss of freedom as well as of significant mental pain. The fact that totalitarianism and creativity are absolutely contradictory, can be deducted from the concept of “kitsch art”. Samuel Beckett started psychotherapy with Wilfred Bion in 1934. It is said that he was suffering from a “crippling neurosis” as the result of being “inextricably tied to a rejecting, harsh, and demanding mother”. Meltzer has referred to metaphorical spaces or claustrum inside the mother’s body where individuals may remain mentally “confined”. The chapter explores the dynamics of patients who were psychologically retained inside the maternal claustrum. It examines the vertex related to the other “side”, meaning, the mothers, and their particular forms of identification.
