A Psychoanalysis of Being: An Approach to Donald Winnicott. (20th April 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Caldwell, Lesley
• Is Part Of: British journal of psychotherapy. Volume 34:Number 2(2018:May)
• Page Start: 221
• Page End: 239
• Publication Date: 2018-04-20
• Subjects: Winnicott -- Being -- Analytic Communication -- The Incommunicado Self -- Infantile Development -- Interpretation -- The Establishment of the Self -- Bion; Psychotherapy -- Periodicals; Psychotherapy -- Periodicals; Psychothérapie -- Périodiques; 616.8914
• DOI: 10.1111/bjp.12357
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0265-9883

Abstract

Abstract : This paper offers a brief résumé of Winnicott's approach to psychoanalysis through a reading that emphasizes his interest in the capacity to be as a fundamental acquisition of human subjectivity. This interest continued throughout his life. The paper argues that it is closely related to his interest in analytic communication and the emphasis in his paper 'Communicating and not‐communicating leading to a study of certain opposites' of the importance clinically of the patient's right not to communicate and the analyst's acceptance of it. It refers briefly to the richness of the arena opened up by his idea of the incommunicado self and its implications for both theory and practice. Three clinical vignettes are included to demonstrate Winnicott's way of working.