Playing and Reality Revisited

A New Look at Winnicott's Classic Work

Gennaro Saragnano, Christian Seulin, Gennaro Saragnano, Christian Seulin

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN:
  9780367102104
• eBook ISBN:
  9780429917356
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Creative Ability in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

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.

Table of contents

• 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
• Index