Winnicott is concerned with the springs of imaginative living & of cultural experience in every sense, with whatever determines an individual's capacity to live creatively & to find life worth living. Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Transitional Objects & Transitional Phenomena 2 Dreaming, Fantasying & Living: A Case-history describing a Primary Dissociation 3 Playing: A Theoretical Statement 4 Playing: Creative Activity & the Search for the Self 5 Creativity & its Origins 6 The Use of an Object & Relating through Identifications 7 The Location of Cultural Experience 8 The Place where we Live 9 Mirror-role of Mother & Family in Child Development 10 Interrelating apart from Instinctual Drive & in terms of Cross-identifications 11 Contemporary Concepts of Adolescent Development & their Implications for Higher Education Tailpiece References Index
Winnicott is concerned with the springs of imaginative living & of cultural experience in every sense, with whatever determines an individual's capacity to live creatively & to find life worth living. Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Transitional Objects & Transitional Phenomena 2 Dreaming, Fantasying & Living: A Case-history describing a Primary Dissociation 3 Playing: A Theoretical Statement 4 Playing: Creative Activity & the Search for the Self 5 Creativity & its Origins 6 The Use of an Object & Relating through Identifications 7 The Location of Cultural Experience 8 The Place where we Live 9 Mirror-role of Mother & Family in Child Development 10 Interrelating apart from Instinctual Drive & in terms of Cross-identifications 11 Contemporary Concepts of Adolescent Development & their Implications for Higher Education Tailpiece References Index