Dw Winnicott Quotes

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It is a joy to be hidden, and disaster not to be found.
D.W. Winnicott
We are poor indeed if we are only sane.
D.W. Winnicott
Fear of breakdown is the fear of a breakdown that has already been experienced
D.W. Winnicott
The child is alone only in the presence of someone.
D.W. Winnicott (Playing and Reality)
It is joy to be hidden but disaster not to be found.
D.W. Winnicott
Nevertheless, with reference to the natural process of childbirth one thing can seldom be forgotten, the fact that the human infant has an absurdly big head.
D.W. Winnicott
The alternative to being is reacting, and reacting interrupts being and annihilates.
D.W. Winnicott
It is not possible to be original except on a basis of tradition.
D.W. Winnicott (Playing and Reality)
It is a joy to be hidden, but a disaster not to be found
D.W. Winnicott (Playing and Reality)
I once said: 'there is no such thing as an infant' meaning, of course, that wherever one finds an infant one finds maternal care, and without maternal care there would be no infant.
D.W. Winnicott (The Maturational Processes and the Facilitating Environment)
Now I want to say: 'After being - doing and being done to. But first, being.
D.W. Winnicott (Playing and Reality)
What is good is always being destroyed
D.W. Winnicott
Poets, philosophers and seers have always concerned themselves with the idea of a true self, and the betrayal of the self has been a typical example of the unacceptable.
D.W. Winnicott
The life of a healthy individual is characterized by fears, conflicting feelings, doubts, frustrations, as much as by the positive features. The main thing is that the man or woman feels he or she is living his or her own life, taking responsibility for action or inaction, and able to take credit for success and blame for failure. In one language it can be said that the individual has emerged from dependence to independence, or to autonomy.
D.W. Winnicott (Home Is Where We Start From: Essays by a Psychoanalyst)
...there is for many a poverty of play and cultural life because, although the person had a place for erudition, there was a relative failure on the part of those who constitute the child's world of persons to introduce cultural elements at the appropriate phases of the person's personality development.
D.W. Winnicott (Playing and Reality)
Though you work like mad to keep parts of you undiscovered, it is horrible to imagine that you will be completely successful. As the psychologist D.W. Winnicott wrote, "It is a joy to be hidden, but a disaster not to be found.
Jennifer Michael Hecht (The Happiness Myth: Why What We Think Is Right Is Wrong)
Psychotherapy takes place at the overlap of two areas of playing: that of the patient and that of the therapist. Psychotherapy has to do with two people playing together. The corollary of this is that where playing is not possible then the work done by the therapist is directed towards bringing the patient from a state of not being able to play into a state of being able to play.
D.W. Winnicott (Playing and Reality)
In schizoid illness, object-relating goes wrong; the patient relates to a subjective world or fails to relate to any object outside the self. Omnipotence is asserted by means of delusions. The patient is withdrawn, out of contact, bemused, isolated, unreal, deaf, inaccessible, invulnerable, and so on. In health a great deal of life has to do with various kinds of object-relating, and with a ‘to-and-fro’ process between relating to external objects and relating to internal ones. In full fruition this is a matter of interpersonal relationships, but the residues of creative relating are not lost, and this makes every aspect of object-relating exciting.
D.W. Winnicott (Home Is Where We Start From: Essays by a Psychoanalyst)
The catastrophe you fear will happen has in fact already happened.
WINNICOTT D.W.
We never just read the text. The text reads us. It creates room for us to move.
Christopher Bollas (Essential Aloneness: Rome Lectures on DW Winnicott)
In health, then, children develop enough belief in themselves and in other people to hate external controls of all kinds, controls have changed over into self-control. In self-control the conflict has been worked through within the person in advance. So I see it this way: good condi- tions in the early stages lead to a sense of security, and a sense of security leads on to seIf-control, and when selfcontrol is a fact, then security that is imposed is an insult (36).
D.W. Winnicott
Relating to objects can be looked at in the same way as psychosomatic coexistence and the wider issue of integration. Object-relating is something that the maturational process drives the baby to achieve, but cannot happen securely unless the world is presented to the baby well enough. The adapting mother presents the world in such a way that the baby starts with a ration of the experience of omnipotence, this being the proper foundation for his or her later coming to terms with the Reality Principle.
D.W. Winnicott (Home Is Where We Start From: Essays by a Psychoanalyst)
Dünya vatandaşları aramaktan vazgeçmeyi öğrenmeli, bağlı oldukları toplumsal birimin, toplumun yerel versiyonunun, milliyetçiliğin ya da dini bir mezhebin sınırlarının dışına taşan çok az insan olduğunu kabul etmeliyiz. Aslında psikiyatrik anlamda sağlıklı insanların sağlıklarını ve kişisel tatminlerini toplumun sınırlı bir alanına (örneğin mahalledeki bilardo kulübüne) bağlı olmalarına borçlu olduklarını kabul etmemiz gerekir. Neden olmasın ki? Gittiğimiz her yerde bir Gilbert Murray bulacağımızı sanıyorsak mutsuz oluruz.
D.W. Winnicott (Playing and Reality)
…I am trying to draw attention to the immense contribution to the individual and to society which the ordinary good mother with her husband in support makes at the beginning, and which she does simply through being devoted to her infant.” D.W. Winnicott, (1964) The Child, the Family, and the Outside World
Jonice Webb (Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect)
esta elaboración se apoya en la apertura hacia los objetos transicionales, en un principio tan concretos como el chupete y el osito y, con el tiempo, tan abstractos como la amistad, la música, y otros modos en que el individuo recupera la experiencia de ilusión.
Sonia Abadi (Transiciones: El modelo terapéutico de D.W. Winnicott (Spanish Edition))
The question I want to begin with is impossibly overdetermined – it is the question of why we are so afraid. The particular answer I will trace out derives from my increasing belief that Gothic literature in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is more than a phenomenon of Anglo-American life. It is a project. To explain and explore this notion, I want to offer a contribution to one of the longest on-going enterprises in fiction studies – the attempt to define the nature of the Gothic in literature. Nearly two hundred years ago, vexed reviewers struggled to explain the amazing, perverse, inescapable, loathsome, irresistible phenomenon of The Monk, by contrasting the narrative strategies of Matthew Gregory Lewis and Ann Radcliffe. From the controversy over the Monk came the first tools for defining Gothic fiction: the distinction between terror and horror. The inadequacy of these useful terms has driven students of the Gothic for the past two centuries to offer other terms, to devise other distinctions. A distinction common in recent Gothic studies is my starting point. Critics frequently create a binary opposition between inside and outside, between Gothic as an exploration of the unconscious and Gothic as a concern for and even an intervention in social reality. In refusing this bogus binary of Freud versus Marx, I want to define a Gothic praxis that involves – necessarily – the interplay of psychological and social forces. This interplay has determined both the title and the subtitle of my essay. My title, the nurture of the Gothic, plays obviously on the phrase already old by John Ruskin’s time – the nature of the Gothic – because I believe the nature of the Gothic is to nurture. This belief derives from what I take to be a basic fact of communal life: that societies inflict terrible wounds upon themselves and at the same time develop mechanisms that can help heal these wounds. Gothic fiction from the later eighteenth century to the present is one such mechanism. Not consciously and yet purposively, Anglo-American culture develops Gothic in order to help heal the damage caused by our embrace of modernity. Thus my title: Gothic’s nature is the psycho-social function of nurture; its project is to heal and transform. To define this healing process, I will begin with the work of a physician, the British paediatrician and psychoanalyst, D.W. Winnicott. His notions of potential space, transitional objects and play will help me produce a general definition of Gothic that I can then historicise and contextualise, drawing upon such thinkers as Michel Foucault, Michael Taussig, Ross Chambers, and Peter Stallybrass and Allon White. This will bring me to the question posed in my subtitle – how can a text be both popular and subversive? Why do we hug closest that which threatens us most? This is another way of asking, how does Gothic nurture? Which is another way of asking, why are we so afraid?
William Veeder
Pode-se dizer que existem dois caminhos para a verdade: o poético e o científico. Os dados de pesquisa relacionam-se com a abordagem científica. A pesquisa científica, que pode ser um trabalho imaginativo e criativo, está atrelada ao objetivo restrito e ao resultado do experimento, bem como às predições envolvidas em sua elaboração. O vínculo entre a verdade poética e a verdade científica é encontrado, com certeza, nas pessoas – em mim e em você. O poeta que há em mim alcança a verdade num lampejo, e o cientista que há em mim busca uma faceta da verdade; à medida que o cientista alcança o objetivo imediato, um novo objetivo se apresenta a ele. A verdade poética tem algumas vantagens. Para o indivíduo, ela oferece satisfações profundas, e na nova expressão de uma velha verdade existe a possibilidade de uma nova experiência criativa, em termos de beleza. É muito difícil, no entanto, usar a verdade poética. Trata-se de uma questão de sentimentos, e nem todos sentem o mesmo em relação a determinado problema. Com a verdade científica, cujo objetivo é limitado, esperamos fazer com que pessoas que usam a cabeça e podem ser influenciadas por considerações intelectuais cheguem a um acordo em certas áreas de atuação. Na poesia, algo verdadeiro se cristaliza; para planejar nossa vida, precisamos da ciência. Só que esta se equivoca no problema da natureza humana e tende a perder de vista o ser humano como um todo.
D.W. Winnicott (Home Is Where We Start from)
A inveja do sexo oposto explica grande parte da frustração de pessoas que vivem vidas fortemente dependentes dos instintos – ou seja, da maioria das pessoas entre a puberdade e os cinquenta anos. O alívio para esse tipo de frustração provém da vida cultural, em que a vinculação com o sexo é mínima. Alguns casamentos se rompem no fim do período da paixão porque a identificação cruzada se enfraquece e então a inveja masculina do fato de a mulher ser mulher é correspondida pela inveja feminina de o homem ser homem. E esses dois seres que se amavam começam a atirar pratos um no outro. Em matéria de arremesso de pratos, o homem e a mulher são iguais. Uma nova parceria há de se seguir, em que a identificação cruzada se reestabelece, e durante certo tempo não se gasta dinheiro com a louça da casa. É difícil para as crianças suportar isso nos pais, mas não há como evitá-lo. As forças podem ser tão intensas que só mesmo uma vítima entre os filhos faz com que os pais substituam o arremesso de pratos por uma relação sexual, ou se separem para poupar a louça. É fácil perceber que um homem que é sempre-tão-doce pode levar a parceira a desejar, com força, um homem muito macho – mesmo que seja um macho horrível, um macho cruel e grosseiro de quem ninguém gosta ou poderia gostar –, ou pode fazer com que ela recaia na própria masculinidade, exagerando os ingredientes de seu feminismo latente. Mesmo assim, homens maternais podem ser muito úteis. São boas mães substitutas, o que é um alívio quando a mãe tem muitos filhos, ou quando adoece, ou quando quer voltar a trabalhar. Também ocorre que muitas mulheres querem que o marido seja maternal com elas. Quem não sofreu deprivação no que diz respeito à maternagem? E não é possível explorar plenamente amizades femininas sem o temor de complicações homossexuais. Tudo isso mostra como a monogamia é difícil na prática. Ou será que ela é impossível, um preceito cristão que talvez ignore demais a realidade? Mesmo assim, as pessoas se perguntam se conseguiram manter uma relação íntima ao longo da vida, pois sabem que têm muito a ganhar com a acumulação de experiências compartilhadas. No entanto, se observarmos casais em dificuldades, verificaremos como pessoas com uma vida psíquica pessoal relativamente inexpressiva estão em desvantagem, porque têm uma elaboração fantasiosa da realidade relativamente restrita e um envolvimento cultural pouco desenvolvido. A vida cultural ajuda quando o homem ou a mulher se desapaixonam e seguem para a segunda fase do jogo do casamento.
D.W. Winnicott (Home Is Where We Start from)