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« For this patient, a false line in an abstract painting is worse than immoral, so much so that another language must be found for its description, unless the painting is simply refused. `...` I suppose that if she gets better, she will be able to live in the midst of all that is sordid as most of us must, but it is clear that she cannot look to the future and say, "I want to be fine," precisely because of those sacred things that will have to be lost, in exchange for the ugly, the ill-equipped and the sordid. »
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Donald W. Winnicott
Fear of collapse and other clinical situations |
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« The analysis is going well, everyone is happy. The only downside is that it never ends. `...` The patient can even mobilize a fake psychonerotic self in order to finish it and express his gratitude. But, in fact, he is well aware that there has been no change in his underlying (psychotic) state and that he and the analyst have succeeded, by this connivance, in a failure. »
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Donald W. Winnicott
Fear of collapse and other clinical situations |
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Donald W. Winnicott
Fear of collapse and other clinical situations
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« So there was a very brief moment during which the threat of madness was affected, but at this level, anxiety is unthinkable. Its intensity exceeds any description and new defenses are organized immediately so that in fact the madness has not been experienced. »
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Donald W. Winnicott
Fear of collapse and other clinical situations |
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Donald W. Winnicott
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