Seminar 5: Encapsulation of primitive anxieties: The reliance on self-generated sensation.
This seminar addresses an important self-protective strategy for attempting to deal with primitive anxieties: that of encapsulation, which takes place through recourse to (self-generated) sensation. Encapsulation can be a way of avoiding the full impact of the anxieties, but comes at the price of being cut off from the outside world and its possibilities.
Primitive Anxieties by Maria Rhode
Fifth Seminar: Encapsulation of primitive anxieties: The reliance on self-generated sensation
In this series of seminars, we will consider various manifestations of existential anxieties, which are to do with survival and which are manifested on the level of the body. We will also discuss how such anxieties can underlie a range of other problems, both in children and in adults; and how, instead of being walled off (encapsulated), they can come to be integrated into the personality.
