ABSTRACT
This "chapter"—which was, in fact, written as a book in 1971—has remained unpublished until now. It presents a phenomenological conception of "sincerity" and links it with emotionality and states of mind. Using the text of three plays by Harold Pinter—"The Dwarfs", "The Birthday Party", and "The Homecoming"—as "clinical material", the author makes a systematic and detailed analysis and puts forward new, thought-provoking, ideas—as, for instance, the differentiation between insincerity and unsincerity in human relations. The notion of the claustrum is mentioned here in connection with The Birthday Party", more than twenty years before the book on the subject (The Claustrum, 1992) appeared as a comprehensive investigation into claustrophobic phenomena and borderline patients.
