ABSTRACT
The essence of voyeurism is intrusiveness. The voyeur seeks to get into other people’s private affairs, without their permission, and spy on them. The prototype for this is the infant fantasy of breaking into the privacy of the parents’ intimacy where he has no business to be. There is no all-or-nothing distinction between healthy emotional relationship and projective identification. Everyone probably has some mannerisms of speech, gesture, or handwriting which originate from imagining themselves to be some admired person from their developmental years, and all families are familiar with examples of children unconsciously miming the expression or gestures of their parents at times. It is only when this is the principal, or exclusive, basis on which the child's development is modelled that the result is chronic projective identification, or the artificial state sometimes referred to as the False Self. The landscape of the claustrum encompasses states of heaven, limbo, and hell, where the force of emotional gravity is always downwards.
