Abstract
This paper aims to expand our thinking about and understanding of two very primitive anxieties that are prominent in various primitive mental states in general and in disorders found along the autistic spectrum, in particular: the fear of falling and the dread of self‐dissolution. These anxieties are illustrated through two personal dreams of the author, two clinical cases, various art works and Beckett's short story ‘The expelled’ (1946). Theoretical developments in psychoanalytic theories for understanding these anxieties are presented and discussed, with the aim to clarify the matrix of object relations specific to each of these two anxieties.
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