Danger at home

Based on the approach of phobia from psychoanalyst Irene Diamantis, the author explores the situation with the phobic subject in confinement. The phobia would be whatever the phobic object on the side of the subject’s collapse. While the subject is built by separating from his mother, the phobia brings him back to a fusional state, incestual, out of time, invaded by assumptions where everything becomes possible and which forbids him to think. The expression "peril in the abode" testifies to the danger lurking in the phobic subject if he does not move towards autonomy. Inspired by the archetype Cronos and his confinement in Tartarus, the author revisits the confinement current and the impact it may have on certain phobic subjects.