ABSTRACT
In Sigmund Freud’s original topographical model he assigned a psychic space to what is dynamically unconscious. He put in this ‘place’ all that was unconscious, which he equated with the Id. Melanie Klein, like Freud, saw the basis of the mind as biological. Freud felt that the engine, so to speak, of the mind was instinct. Freud had spoken of ‘primal phantasy’, particularly in relation to the primal scene, and had thought of it in a Lamarckian way as a kind of race memory which was inherited and was present as a given in the mind. When the therapist interpreted how disturbed he was by the horrible thoughts in his mind he became calmer for a moment, and then managed to speak to the therapist about his terrors in a much more communicative way: his fear of Hell, his fear of Eternity, and how scared he was.
