“It’s not the badness that has made the secrecy; it’s the secrecy that has made the badness”

Donald Meltzer’s claustrum theory (cf. Appendix) is believed to shed a whole new light over both the nature and meaning of perversions. This new light can be shown to provide us with much better guidance as to how we should perhaps best deal with this kind of pathology in the concreteness of the clinical hour. Some of the connections between perversions and the qualities of thinking are discussed both in this and the next few chapters. The significance of masochism in psychic reality is believed to “… always turn out to be the killing of mother’s babies [inside the mother].” A subtle readjustment of the problem of interpretation in the transference versus interpretation outside is now suggested.