Playing and Reality (Penguin education) - Softcover

Winnicott, D.W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140803785 ISBN 13: 9780140803785

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1980

Synopsis

Winnicott is concerned with the springs of imaginative living & of cultural experience in every sense, with whatever determines an individual's capacity to live creatively & to find life worth living.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Transitional Objects & Transitional Phenomena
2 Dreaming, Fantasying & A Case-history describing a Primary Dissociation
3 A Theoretical Statement
4 Creative Activity & the Search for the Self
5 Creativity & its Origins
6 The Use of an Object & Relating through Identifications
7 The Location of Cultural Experience
8 The Place where we Live
9 Mirror-role of Mother & Family in Child Development
10 Interrelating apart from Instinctual Drive & in terms of Cross-identifications
11 Contemporary Concepts of Adolescent Development & their Implications for Higher Education
Tailpiece
References
Index

About this title

About the Author

D.W. Winnicott (1896-1971). A renowned psychoanalyst and theorist, whose profound and original thought has had a lasting influence throughout the world. He was President of the British Psycho-Analytical Society and President of the Paediatric Section of the Royal Society of Medicine.

Review

"Winnicott was the greatest British psychoanalyst who ever lived. He writes beautifully and simply about the problems of everyday life - and is the perfect thing to read if you want to understand yourself and other people better." - Alain de Botton

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140803785
• ISBN 13: 9780140803785
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208