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« Some children, even during their earliest childhood, are never allowed to lie down and hover. They lose a lot and the feeling that they want to live on their own can escape them completely. »
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Donald W. Winnicott
The child and his family |
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Donald W. Winnicott
The child and his family
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« To begin with, I think you will be relieved to learn that I do not intend to tell you what to do. I am a man and, therefore, I cannot really know what it is to see there, wrapped in a cradle, a small piece of my person, a small piece of me having an independent yet dependent life and which, little by little, becomes a person. Only a woman can live this experience. And only, perhaps, a woman can live it in imagination when, by bad luck, the true experience is lacking. »
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Donald W. Winnicott
The child and his family |
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Donald W. Winnicott
The child and his family
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« We assume here that the acceptance of reality is an unfinished task, that no human being is freed from the tension of relating the inner reality and the external reality; we also assume that this tension can be relaxed thanks to the existence of an intermediate area of experience that is not disputed (arts, religion, etc.): this intermediate area is in direct continuity with the playful area of the young child who is "lost" in his play. »
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Donald W. Winnicott
Transitional objects |
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Donald W. Winnicott
Transitional objects
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