- 1 The Place Where We Live
- 2 Communication Between Infant and Mother, and Mother and Infant, Compared and Contrasted
- 3 Physical and Emotional Disturbances in an Adolescent Girl
- 4 Chards Pil…
- 5 The Use of the Word ‘Use’
- 6 Interpretation in Psycho-Analysis
- 7 Letter to Donald Gough
- 8 Foreword to <i>Disturbed Children</i>
- 9 Playing and Culture
- 10 <i>Sum</i>, I Am
- 11 Review: <i>Vulnerable Children: Three Studies of Children in Conflict</i>
- 12 The Effect of Loss on the Young
- 13 Review: <i>The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, Volume 22</i>
- 14 A Link Between Paediatrics and Child Psychology
- 15 Playing
- 16 Children Learning
- 17 Letter to L. Joseph Stone
- 18 Review: <i>Human Aggression</i>
- 19 Sleep Refusal in Children
- 20 Letter to Mrs T.
- 21 Roots of Aggression
- 22 Foreword to <i>Susan Isaacs: The First Biography</i>
- 23 Letter to Adam Limentani
- 24 Letter to Renata Gaddini
- 25 Review: <i>Children in Distress</i>
- 26 Breast-feeding as Communication
- 27 First Interview with Child May Start Resumption of Maturation
- 28 The Use of an Object and Relating Through Identifications
- 29 Clinical Illustration of ‘The Use of an Object’
- 30 Further Clinical Illustration of ‘The Use of an Object’
- 31 Letter to Joyce Coles
- 32 Letter to Joyce Coles
- 33 Letter to Karl and Sheila Britton
- 34 Letter to Joyce Coles
- 35 Letter to Joyce Coles
- 36 Letter to Joyce Coles
- 37 Letter to Joyce Coles
- 38 Comments on My Paper ‘The Use of an Object’
- 39 Letter to Karl Britton
- 40 Letter to Joyce Coles
- 41 Letter to Renata Gaddini
- 42 Letter to Joyce Coles
- 43 Letter to Joyce Coles
- 44 Letter to Karl and Sheila Britton
- 45 Foreword to <i>Therapy in Child Care</i>
- 46 Review: <i>The Psychology of Childhood and Adolescence</i>
- 47 The Squiggle Game
- 48 Thinking and Symbol-Formation
(p. 393) Comments on My Paper ‘The Use of an Object’
- Chapter:
- (p. 393) Comments on My Paper ‘The Use of an Object’
- Author(s):
Donald W. Winnicott
- DOI:
- 10.1093/med:psych/9780190271404.003.0076
Winnicott comments on the responses of colleagues in the New York Psychoanalytic Society to his paper ‘The Use of an Object’. He points out the developmental growth in this area of ‘object use’ for certain patients who need to ‘destroy their object in fantasy and see it survives in reality’. He also states that what here appears as ‘destructive’ in actuality is the vitality and energy of what it means to be alive. Through clinical work in this area, the analyst may become a real object, existing outside the patient’s omnipotent fantasises, something that is not usually possible in cases of more acute mental illness.
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- 1 The Place Where We Live
- 2 Communication Between Infant and Mother, and Mother and Infant, Compared and Contrasted
- 3 Physical and Emotional Disturbances in an Adolescent Girl
- 4 Chards Pil…
- 5 The Use of the Word ‘Use’
- 6 Interpretation in Psycho-Analysis
- 7 Letter to Donald Gough
- 8 Foreword to <i>Disturbed Children</i>
- 9 Playing and Culture
- 10 <i>Sum</i>, I Am
- 11 Review: <i>Vulnerable Children: Three Studies of Children in Conflict</i>
- 12 The Effect of Loss on the Young
- 13 Review: <i>The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, Volume 22</i>
- 14 A Link Between Paediatrics and Child Psychology
- 15 Playing
- 16 Children Learning
- 17 Letter to L. Joseph Stone
- 18 Review: <i>Human Aggression</i>
- 19 Sleep Refusal in Children
- 20 Letter to Mrs T.
- 21 Roots of Aggression
- 22 Foreword to <i>Susan Isaacs: The First Biography</i>
- 23 Letter to Adam Limentani
- 24 Letter to Renata Gaddini
- 25 Review: <i>Children in Distress</i>
- 26 Breast-feeding as Communication
- 27 First Interview with Child May Start Resumption of Maturation
- 28 The Use of an Object and Relating Through Identifications
- 29 Clinical Illustration of ‘The Use of an Object’
- 30 Further Clinical Illustration of ‘The Use of an Object’
- 31 Letter to Joyce Coles
- 32 Letter to Joyce Coles
- 33 Letter to Karl and Sheila Britton
- 34 Letter to Joyce Coles
- 35 Letter to Joyce Coles
- 36 Letter to Joyce Coles
- 37 Letter to Joyce Coles
- 38 Comments on My Paper ‘The Use of an Object’
- 39 Letter to Karl Britton
- 40 Letter to Joyce Coles
- 41 Letter to Renata Gaddini
- 42 Letter to Joyce Coles
- 43 Letter to Joyce Coles
- 44 Letter to Karl and Sheila Britton
- 45 Foreword to <i>Therapy in Child Care</i>
- 46 Review: <i>The Psychology of Childhood and Adolescence</i>
- 47 The Squiggle Game
- 48 Thinking and Symbol-Formation