Depression and paradigm change in Winnicott

Abstract

In this article largue that depression is the clinical fact that led Winnicott to ponder the need of change in the etiology of psychic disturbances, thus bringing about a displacement of the psychoanalytical paradigm of neuroses - as proposed by Freud - to psychosis. I also argue that the technical and clinical contribution brought by this author in psychoanalytic theory can be understood as progress for the area - an idea proposed and defended by Loparic - butrhat such new developments can only be appreciated in their entirety by approximating winnicottian theses wirh Martin Heidegger's fundamental ontology.