Playing And Reality

by Winnicott,D. W.

• ISBN13: 9780415345460
• ISBN10: 0415345464
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-11-11
• Publisher: ROUTLEDGE

Summary

What are the origins of creativity and how can we develop it - whether within ourselves or in others? Not only does Playing and Reality address these questions, it also tackles many more that surround the fundamental issue of the individual self and its relationship with the outside world. In this landmark book of twentieth-century psychology, Winnicott shows the reader how, through the attentive nurturing of creativity from the earliest years, every individual has the opportunity to enjoy a rich and rewarding cultural life. Today, as the 'hothousing' and testing of children begins at an ever-younger age, Winnicott's classic text is a more urgent and topical read than ever before.

Author Biography

D. W. Winnicott was President of the British Psycho-Analytical Society and President of the Paediatric Section of the Royal Society of Medicine.

Table of Contents

Transitional objects and transitional phenomena	p. 1
Dreaming, fantasying and living : a case-history describing a primary dissociation	p. 35
Playing : a theoretical statement	p. 51
Playing : creative activity and the search for the self	p. 71
Creativity and its origins	p. 87
The use of an object and relating through identifications	p. 115
The location of cultural experience	p. 128
The place where we live	p. 140
Mirror-role of mother and family in child development	p. 149
Interrelating apart from instinctual drive and in terms of cross-identifications	p. 160
Contemporary concepts of adolescent development and their implications for higher education	p. 186
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