Language of Winnicott: A Dictionary of Winnicott's Use of Words

481 Pages·2007·1.58 MB·English

by  Jan Abram

THE LANGUAGE
OF WINNICOTT
D. W. Winnicott
THE LANGUAGE
OF WINNICOTT
A Dictionary
of Winnicott’s Use of Words

SECOND EDITION
Jan Abram
Bibliography compiled by
Knud Hjulmand
KARNAC
First published in 1996 by
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This second edition published in 2007
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Bibliography copyright © 2007 by Knud Hjulmand
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Copyright acknowledgements
Excerpts: From D. W. Winnicott, Through Paediatrics to Psycho-Analysis. Copyright
© 1958 by The Winnicott Trust. Reprinted by permission of The Random House
Group Ltd (Chatto & Windus, the publishers) and the Estate of D.W. Winnicott.
From D. W. Winnicott, The Child, the Family and the Outside World. © 1964, 1957 the
Estate of D. W. Winnicott. Reprinted by permission of Tavistock Publications. From
D. W. Winnicott, The Family and Individual Development. Copyright © 1965 by The
Winnicott Trust. Reprinted by permission of Tavistock Publications. From D. W.
Winnicott, The Maturational Processes and the Facilitating Environment. Copyright
© 1965 by The Winnicott Trust. Reprinted by permission of The Random House
Group Ltd (Chatto & Windus, the publishers) and Paterson Marsh Ltd on behalf of
the Winnicott Trust. From D. W. Winnicott, Playing and Reality. Copyright © 1971 by
The Winnicott Trust. Reprinted by permission of Tavistock Publications. From D.
W. Winnicott, Therapeutic Consultations in Child Psychiatry. Copyright © 1971 by The
Executors of the Estate of D.W. Winnicott. Reprinted by permission of The Ran-
dom House Group Ltd (Chatto & Windus, the publishers) and the Estate of D.W.
Winnicott. From D. W. Winnicott, Deprivation and Delinquency. Copyright © 1984 by
The Winnicott Trust. Reprinted by permission of Tavistock Publications. From D.
W. Winnicott, Home Is Where We Start From. Copyright © 1986 by the Estate of D.W.
Winnicott. Reproduced by permission of Mark Paterson and Associates on behalf
of The Winnicott Trust, London, and W. W. Norton & Company. From D. W. Winn-
icott, Babies & Their Mothers. © 1987 The Winnicott Trust by arrangement with Mark
Paterson. Reproduced by permission of Free Association Books Ltd. and the Win-
nicott Trust. From D. W. Winnicott, Human Nature. © 1988 The Winnicott Trust by
arrangement with Mark Paterson. Reproduced by permission of Free Association
Books Ltd. and the Winnicott Trust. From D. W. Winnicott, Psycho-Analytic Explora-
tions, edited by Clare Winnicott, Ray Shepherd, and Madeleine Davis. Copyright ©
1989 by the Winnicott Trust. All excerpts have been reproduced by permission of
Mark Paterson and Associates on behalf of The Winnicott Trust, London.

For John
For Tamsin, Zak, and Ben
For Amy, Max, and Chloe
with all my love

CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Xvii
ABOUT THE AUTHOR AND THE BIBLIOGRAPHER xxi
PREFACE xxiii
FOREWORD TO SECOND EDITION by Thomas H. Ogden xxv
FOREWORD TO FIRST EDITION by Jonathan Pedder xxvii
Introduction 1
AGGRESSION 15
1 The concept of aggression in psychoanalysis 16
2 Primary aggression 18
3 The baby’s ruthlessness 21
4 The analyst’s aroused hatred 22
5 The evolution of aggression in the developing child 23
6 The task of fusion 26
7 The need for opposition and the reality
of the external object 28
8 Ruthless love 30
9 Tolerance of destructiveness leading to concern 31
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