Destructiveness, survival, subjectivation: aggressiveness as a power of creative destruction in Winnicott

Abstract

In Winnicott, aggressiveness is, in first place, synonymous with activity and movement. Refusing to interpret its emergence in essentialist and deterministic terms, theauthor assumes that, through in the presence of a facilitating environment, proper human nature aggressiveness can develop in a healthy way, becoming a more integrated experience. Throughout this article, it is intended to investigate how this process enables the transformation of the relationship with the object in a use of the object, also seeking to think how a composition between the aspects of subjective experience and objective perception of the object become possible through creative destruction. It also aims to show how, from the advent of the capacity for concern - which results from the survival capacity of the destroyed object - a more consistent contact with external reality is established, which leads to the full recognition of otherness.