Playing and Reality Revisited is the first volume of a new IPA series dedicated to the greatest writings of psychoanalysis. More than forty years after its publication, Donald W. Winnicott's Playing and Reality is still a source of inspiration for numerous psychoanalysts. The authors have invited some of the most eminent specialists of Winnicott's thinking to write on the most significant themes that the author discovered and highlighted brillantly in his book. They show how such concepts as transitional object and phenomena, the use of an object, and mirroring, remain essential today, and explore the way in which Winnicott conceived playing, creativity, cultural experience and adolescence, demonstrating their contemporary relevance. This book is both an homage to Winnicott and a fascinating extension of his work.

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Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
IPA Publications Committee
About the Editors and Contributors
Introduction
Chapter One Illusion in the origins of transitional phenomena and transitional objects
Chapter Two Playing
Chapter Three Playing: listening to the enacted dimension of the analytic process
Chapter Four Creative processes and artistic creation
Chapter Five Genesis, primal scene, and self-engenderment
Chapter Six Creativity: a new paradigm for Freudian psychoanalysis
Chapter Seven Further reflections on Winnicott’s last major theoretical achievement: from “Relating through identifications” to “The use of an object”
Chapter Eight The use of an object: Winnicott and ternary thought
Chapter Nine Thoughts on “Cultural experience and its location”
Chapter Ten The mirror role of mother and family in child development: a reflection
Chapter Eleven Ruptures and reconnections: play as a thread for sewing up?
Chapter Twelve Mirroring, mirrors, and proto-oedipal constellations
Chapter Thirteen Playing and Reality revisited: clinical practice with adolescents in the twenty-first century
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