ABSTRACT
A historical approach to psychoanalysis and the study of confusion between internal and external reality leads the enquirer on to other related areas of thought: to the lives and works of artists and scientists, and to the history of religion and philosophy. Kenneth Meltzer Donald describes as "claustrophilia" the anticipated pleasures of intrusion into this holy place, which inevitably ends in tears—the torments of claustrophobia. Meltzer's vision of the geography of the mind envisaged at its creative core the lovemaking of the internal parents in their nuptial chamber, invoking Milton and Paradise Lost. Meltzer's psychoanalytic "theology" is genetic and alimentary: heaven is at the mother's breast, whether external or internal. Meltzer's is a voyage of discovery into the uncharted regions of the interior, where confusion of identity inhibits the experience of wonder at the beauty of the world and where the threat of madness looms.
