The Place of Winnicott in the History of Psychoanalysis: Between Freud and Masud Khan

Abstract

Psychoanalysis begins with the interpretation of dreams, when Freud, in opposition to organicist psychiatry, defends the oneirocritics.  For Winnicott, rather than objects of interpretation, dreams are objects of experiences of the self.  This way of looking at dreams is then adopted and developed by Masud Khan. Keywords: Interpretation; Signification; Inconscient; Space; Process and experience of self; Fantasying; Imagination; Dissociation; Omnipotence.