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« Do girls have an ability to better conceal, to act, to do like the mother, without ever ceasing to preserve their identity as an unborn baby in them? I think there is a bit of truth in the theory that a girl often fares better with a fake self, who is compliant and who copies, than a boy `...`. »
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Donald W. Winnicott
The family good enough |
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Donald W. Winnicott
The family good enough
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« There is something encouraging ... when depression takes the form of a worry about something. `...` It is not up to us to help this woman to reach the true source of her guilt.... What we can do is offer a little help for a while to the exact place where the individual expresses failure, and thus read to communicate hope. `...` We know that we fulfilled our role by indirectly acting on this woman's illness and by strengthening her ability to solve an inner struggle that engaged her so fully into the unconscious. »
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Donald W. Winnicott
The family good enough |
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Donald W. Winnicott
The family good enough
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« `Definition of transitional area` An area of experience that is intermediate between the thumb and the bear, between oral eroticism and the true objectal relationship, between primary creative activity and the projection of what has already been introjected, between primary ignorance of debt and recognition of that debt. »
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Donald W. Winnicott
Transitional objects |
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Donald W. Winnicott
Transitional objects
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