Donald W. Winnicott
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"is paper draws on a qualitative study that was undertaken as part of a national research study to assess the impact of participatory arts provision for people with mental health needs. It explores how arts and mental health projects may... more
This paper critically examines the approach to studying and intervening in organizations that derives from the work of Melanie Klein. It proposes that Klein’s emphasis on reparation, while clearly valuable for effecting change, can also... more
In the available psychological literature, affect regulation is fundamentally considered in terms of self-regulation, and according to this standard picture, the contribution of other people in our affect regulation has been viewed in... more
I offer a retrospective view of the evolving baby metaphor in relational thinking. Early relational critiques of developmental tilt models and the concept of holding in clinical work, amplified by feminist writers, sharply skewed... more
This article contrasts the theories of ego formation put forward in Jacques Lacan’s ‘The Mirror Stage’ and Donald Winnicott’s ‘The Mirror Role of the Mother,’ and discusses their methodological implications for the field of American... more
This study employs a corpus-based approach to make justifiable psychodynamic interpretations based on the statistical relationships that exist between linguistic variables in written texts. The text examined is Hitler's (1943) "Mein... more
Recent theories of intersubjectivity attach primacy to the creation of meaning between subjects, obscuring the role of the material world to which both Freud and Winnicott attached significance. Yet, as this article argues,... more
In recent years, critics working with psychoanalysis have increasingly turned their attention to the relationship between therapy and culture. Following Lacan and Foucault, many critics are wary of the way in which the idea of therapy has... more
A loss of meaning ensues as family photographs come into public circulation and display, and the question of how memory endures within this process has become of increasing concern. Retaining photographic materiality, along with original... more
Reflecting on developments that have occurred in the twenty years since 9/11, this paper attempts to refine a conception of what might be called psychoanalytic secularism. It does so by addressing a specific question: How can the field do... more
It is in the best interest of psychoanalysis that new schools of thought (earlier examples of which are the classical, Kleinian, and self psychological perspectives) evolve. Generating a new school of thought, however, is almost... more
In this article, I engage the psychoanalytic writings of Donald Winnicott, Thomas Ogden and Wilfred Bion, who proffer maternal reverie – an intimate intersubjective communication between the mother and infant – as an early model for the... more
This article discusses the concept of a violent career and demonstrates its explicative value for biographical research and the sociology of crime. Relying on a study grounded in intensive interviews with young repeat offenders, it... more
Turning to object relations psychoanalysis and Black critical theory, I argue that the violence of racialization works in and through clinical and national settings. The setting is theorized in terms of its phantasmatic and phantomatic... more
In this paper, I study the narrative structure of comics as a means to describe the ways that indeterminate modes of representation can allow the reader to imagine that which in childhood can never be fully expressed. Analyzing a number... more
The main objective of this paper is to present a unified view of Winnicott’s contribution to psychoanalysis. Part I (Sections 1-4) starts off by recalling that, according to some important commentators, Winnicott introduced a change in... more
This is a stand alone peer reviewed article and the sixth chapter of "The Whole Child: Selected Papers on Existential-Humanistic Child Psychology." In this article, qualitative, case-based research findings from the works of D. W.... more
This paper argues that the uncertain public status of victim narratives of sexual abuse has inhibited the information sharing and dialogue necessary for policy reform and transformative change. Through an integration of public sphere... more
thoughtful article explores the intersection of my work on holding with some core Kohutian ideas. Lenoff offers a respectful consideration of our perspectives-their overlaps-and their divergences. It's important to preface my response, I... more
The aim of this article is to sketch a Heiddegerian reading of Winnicott. Starting from the fact that the invitation to deal philosophically with fundamental problems of Psychoanalysis comes from Freud... more
Political economists have argued that user activity on corporate social media is regarded as labour that appears playful and fun but is exploited and sold to advertisers for profit maximization. This article begins with the working... more
Jonathan Slavin interprets agency as a matter of mattering to an Other, proposing that agency, rather than memory, is “the glue of psychic integrity.” I suggest that Slavin, in making this argument, restores the often obscured dimension... more
While it is essential that we live as self-defined individuals, independently negotiating with an independent reality, this experience is not exhaustive of our reality. Such experience is importantly contextualized by two other kinds of... more
This paper develops the concept of riding instincts, even to die through a queer reading of Winnicott's "Primary Maternal Preoccupation." Primary preoccupation narrates the ongoing establishment of what Winnicott calls "instinctual life."... more
Appears in special issue of Hypatia: a Journal of Feminist Philosophy (winter 2015.) The theme of the special issue is "New Conversations in Feminist Disability Studies." Its editor is Kim Q. Hall.
This article examines the experience of being seen and analyzes its central role in the formation of a coherent sense of self. Tove Jansson's short story from 1962, 'The Invisible Child', serves as the red thread of the article, and the... more
From 2005 to 2006 LUDUS Dance, a professional contemporary dance, and dance in education, company based in the English city of Lancaster were funded by the Arts Council England to deliver a dance programme to a school for children... more
Este artigo analisa os impactos subjetivos advindos das novas formas de interação permitidas pelos avanços tecnológicos no campo virtual. Foram realizadas entrevistas semiestruturadas com seis participantes adultos que possuíam um... more
This paper investigates the emergence of dream material in the graphic novel Arsène Schrauwen, authored by Belgian comics artist, Olivier Schrauwen. Although the author purports to tell the story of his grandfather’s misadventures as a... more
borda a questão filosófica da intersubjetividade, além da ques- tão tradicional da alteridade. A primazia desta questão não concerne somente à filosofia, mas aparece central nas perspectivas da psicanálise e da psicopatologia, pois... more
Abstract The present paper examines the clinical integration of theory and experience from the perspective of clinicians’ subjective shaping of inquiry. The author suggests that the historical, conceptual development of clinical... more
Utilizing observations on adolescence—notably those of Winnicott, as well as the work of Lacan and a clinical case—the author advances several propositions concerning the unique relationship between adolescents and time. The consequences... more
The article focuses on the consequences of Winnicott's style for his work and for the psychoanalysis inspired by his work. Within this framework, the article discusses possibilities and deadlocks for an appropriation of Winnicott's work... more
The Winnicott we need now reveals the schizoid condition of our culture. Dissociated from earthly bodies, we live as if brains alone are real and are seemingly compelled to bring ecological catastrophe upon an otherwise good- enough... more
The author begins by turning to a recent confrontation with four men who chanted homophobic slurs in his neighborhood. He uses this experience to state some of his ideas regarding violence and the setting. Visceral belonging is considered... more
When it comes to education, the dream cannot be controlled by the strictures of language or the conscious mind, and in its insistently disobedient character, is unwilling to submit to the demands of a deliberate and conscious curriculum.... more
The vexed debate within the field of queer theory over what it means to be queer in the social world—the anti-social thesis—serves as this article’s conceptual and theoretical starting point, but also is that which, as I argue, The... more
Es kann gesagt werden, dass aus der Nichtexistenz allein die Existenz ihren Anfang nehmen kann.
D.W. Winnicott
D.W. Winnicott
This paper compares the analytic and experiential approaches to dreams in order to illuminate the intrinsic and necessary relationships between the two understandings. It describes how dream work reflects the bimodalness of symbolism,... more
The article starts by showing that Winnicott, by considering the practice of institutional assintance, was able to find what was therapeutic for the children involved and to formulate principles upon which these therapeutic effects were... more
This article contextualizes the significance of lived experience in relation to personal narratives and learning largely by examining Zainab Salbi’s autobiography Between Two Worlds: Escape from Tyranny: Growing Up in the Shadow of... more