Book Cover; Title; Contents; Foreword by; What is vertigo?; Fusion-related vertigo; Vertigo related to being dropped; Suction-related vertigo; Imprisonment/escape-related vertigo; Vertigo due to attraction to the void: the emergence of internal space; Expansion-related vertigo; Competition-related vertigo; Vertigo, from anxiety to pleasure; What makes a candidate for vertigo?; Vertigo in the work of Sigmund Freud and Melanie Klein; Dangerous games with vertigo; Equilibrium: a continuous construction; Bibliography; Index of names; General subject index
Summary
Danielle Quinodoz unravels the unconscious significance of the feelings of emotional vertigo. She traces the origins of emotional vertigo to inner anxieties around separation which are connected with movements in space and time