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Donald W. Winnicott
and the History of the Present
Donald W. Winnicott
and the History
of the Present
Understanding
the Man and his Work
Edited by
Angela Joyce
First published in 2018 by
Karnac Books Ltd
118 Finchley Road
London NW3 5HT
Copyright © 2018 to Angela Joyce for the edited collection, and to the individual
authors for their contributions.
The rights of the contributors to be identified as the authors of this work have
been asserted in accordance with §§ 77 and 78 of the Copyright Design and
Patents Act 1988.
ISBN-13: 978-1-78220-559-3
www.karnacbooks.com
Contents
Acknowledgements vii
Preface xv
Introduction xvii
Angela Joyce
Chapter ONE
Emergence and conception of the subject (self) 1
René Roussillon
Chapter TWO
In between sameness and otherness: the analyst’s words
in interpsychic dialogue 17
Stefano Bolognini
v
vi contents
Chapter THREE
An investigation into the technical reasons Winnicott
proposes that the analyst’s objective hate towards the patient
has to eventually be made available for interpretation 31
Vincenzo Bonaminio and Paolo Fabozzi
Chapter FOUR
Meeting Winnicott 45
Juliet Hopkins
Chapter FIVE
There’s no such thing as a baby: how relationships support
development from birth to two 49
Lynne Murray
Chapter SIX
The irrepressible song 63
Kenneth Wright
Chapter SEVEN
Creativity in everyday life (or, Living in the world creatively) 77
Ken Robinson
Chapter EIGHT
Images and words: some contemporary perspectives on the
concept of regression 91
Angela Joyce
Chapter NINE
The public psychoanalyst: Donald Winnicott as broadcaster 111
Brett Kahr
Chapter TEN
Beyond the consulting room: Winnicott the broadcaster 123
Anne Karpf
Chapter ELEVEN
Winnicott’s paradigm shift in psychoanalytic theory and practice 133
Zeljko Loparic
Index 143
Acknowledgements
Grateful thanks go to the trustees of the Winnicott Trust (at the time of
the conference this book grew from: Barbie Antonis, Lesley Caldwell,
Steven Groarke, Angela Joyce (chair), Ruth McCall, Marianne Parsons,
Judith Trowell, Elizabeth Wolf) and the representative from the British
Psychoanalytic Association, Shirley Spitz, who worked tirelessly to pre-
pare the conference during the year prior to its happening. The Trust
was supported in various ways by the Association of Independent Psy-
choanalysts (AIP), the British Psychoanalytical Society (BPAS), and the
British Psychoanalytic Association (BPA). At the BPAS we were ably
assisted by Marjory Goodall without whose unflagging patience and
unstinting help we could not have held the conference.
To all those who agreed to present papers and workshops and then
who have given permission for them to be reproduced in this volume,
we are indebted, as we are to those who agreed to chair the events. Over
that weekend we were delighted that PhD students from University
College London helped its smooth running by acting as stewards. The
audience at the conference were enthusiastic recipients of the products
of all our labours. A special thanks goes to Clive Robinson who recorded
all the proceedings and photographed the participants.
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viii acknowledgements
Without the work that went into the preparation of The Collected
Works of D. W. Winnicott, the conference would never have happened.
General editors Lesley Caldwell and Helen Taylor Robinson, assisted
by Robert Ades and Clay Pearn, completed the assembly of the twelve
volumes, published by Oxford University Press in late 2016. That pro-
cess was guided by the project management board, chaired by Amal
Treacher Kabesh, and including Clive Morgan, Sarah Nettleton, and
Emma Letley.
To our agents the Marsh Agency, Camilla Ferrier and in the past
Steph Ebdon, who look after Winnicott’s publications, we give our
thanks. In particular, for permission to reproduce the Squiggle on p. 161
in Professor Loparic’s paper.
We are grateful for permission to reproduce here the following
extracts or papers:
To Oxford University Press for permission to include Vincenzo
Bonaminio & Paolo Fabozzi’s paper, “An investigation into the techni-
cal reasons Winnicott proposes that the analyst’s objective hate towards
the patient has to eventually be made available for interpretation”.
To Wiley Publications for permission to reproduce Winnicott’s
Squiggles that were published in the International Journal of Psychoanalysis
as part of the paper, “A clinical study of the effect of a failure of the aver-
age expectable environment on a child’s mental functioning” (1965).
Juliet Hopkins’s “Meeting Winnicott” was based on a chapter in her
book, The Collected Papers of Juliet Hopkins, edited by Ann Horne and
Monica Lanyado (Routledge, 2015). Thanks to Taylor & Francis for per-
mission to publish this here.
Anne Karpf’s workshop presentation was based on a longer article,
“Constructing and addressing the ‘ordinary devoted mother’: Donald
Winnicott’s BBC broadcasts, 1943–62”, published in History Workshop
Journal, vol. 78, Autumn 2014, with thanks for permission to reproduce
parts of it here.
About the editor and contributors
Editor
Angela Joyce is a training and supervising psychoanalyst with the
British Psychoanalytical Society and a child psychoanalyst trained at
the Anna Freud Centre, London. There she was a member of the pio-
neering Parent Infant Project for many years from 1997 and jointly
led the resurgence of child psychotherapy. She now works in private
practice in London. She is currently chair of the Winnicott Trust and a
trustee of the Squiggle Foundation, and is an honorary senior lecturer
at University College London. She has written papers and contributed
to books on early development and parent-infant psychotherapy, and
Winnicottian studies. Her book, edited with Lesley Caldwell, Reading
Winnicott, was published in the New Library of Psychoanalysis Teach-
ing Series in January 2011, and she contributed a volume introduction
to The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott, published in 2017.
Contributors
Stefano Bolognini is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, and currently
president of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA).
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x a b o u t t h e e d i to r a n d c o n t r i b u to r s
the Tavistock Clinic. She was a founder member in 1982 of the inde-
pendent child psychotherapy training (now named IPCAPA) and this
year published an edited collection of her papers, An Independent Mind
(Routledge, 2015). In 1961 she had the privilege of being supervised by
Winnicott on her work with a young child, which is the subject of her
brief contribution to the conference recorded here.
Zeljko Loparic has a PhD in philosophy and since 1984 teaches phi-
losophy and history of psychoanalysis at different universities in Brazil
and abroad. In 2005 he founded, together with Elsa Oliveira Dias, the
Brazilian Society of Winnicottian Psychoanalysis (SBPW). In 2013 he
founded and was elected president of the International Winnicott Asso-
ciation (IWA). In 2014 he started teaching the Sino-Brazilian Training
Course in Winnicottian Psychoanalysis in Beijing. He authored Heidegger
Defendant (1990), Ethics and Finitude (1995), Heuristic Descartes (1997),
xii a b o u t t h e e d i to r a n d c o n t r i b u to r s
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xvi p r e fa c e
Angela Joyce
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xviii i n t r o du c t i o n
Acknowledgements
Grateful acknowledgement is here given to the two general editors
of The Collected Works of Donald W. Winnicott, who contextualised the
November 2015 conference in their account of the process of compiling
the Collected Works and which I have here drawn from.
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Chapter oNE
I
do not think I am mistaken in thinking that D. W. Winnicott would
have liked his writings and elaborations to form a possible basis
for the creativity of analysts who refer to them. So I feel completely
in tune with him in developing the way in which I draw on some of
his intuitions to develop my own work. There are domains of clinical
psychoanalysis where I still do not have the feeling that I have been
able to rise to the level of his contribution; but there are others where
I feel that, benefitting also from the contribution of Freud and of French
psychoanalysis, I have been able to extend certain of his propositions
in a way that has been useful to me in my clinical practice and in my
understanding of certain pathologies of narcissism.
In this chapter I will focus on the manner of understanding D. W.
Winnicott’s interest in the self in connection with the place occupied by
the “Ich” in Freud’s thought; it is this “Ich” that I translate by “subject”.
1
2 D o n a l d W. W i n n i c ot t a n d t h e H i s to ry o f t h e P r e s e n t
On the one hand, the term designates the part of the psyche that is at
the origin of the actions, processes, and intentions that set it in move-
ment. It designates, therefore, the promoter of psychic life, its author,
what vectorises it.
On the other hand, the term also refers to the portion of psychic life
that has been appropriated by the actions, processes, and intentions of
this internal author. It refers, therefore, to the portion of psychic life and
of its history that the subject (self) has been able to make his own, to
make “self” (soi). It is thus differentiated from the id which represents
processes “without subject or object”, processes of action expressed
“in the infinitive” (Freud); it represents the part of the id that has been
transformed in order to be integrated with subjectivity (self).
I think that D. W. Winnicott’s contribution on the question of the
subject (self) in psychic life lies essentially in an approach that questions
at one and the same time its conditions of emergence and its conditions
of development. I will be developing three propositions on these condi-
tions of emergence and development.
The first concerns the conditions of subjective experience of creating/
finding in which the subject can have a “sense of being” in the sense
implied by the famous words of D. W. Winnicott: “First being, after
doing or being done to, but first being” (“Creativity and Its Origins”,
1971, pp. 84–85).
The second is related to a decisive subjective experience in the
subject’s apprehension of his freedom of being and of being a “subject”:
the experience of the conditions that make it possible for the subject
to experience himself as formless.
The third determines the possibility for the subject of creating and of
taking possession of the category of “subject” (self): it is known as an
experience of “survival” and is at the origin of the organisation of the
psychic topography, and in its later forms, of the internal organisation
of the “subjective” topography, thus of the subject (self) itself.