D. W. Winnicott Evolving and Continuing: A Consideration of Winnicott’s Implicit Theories of Thinking and Influence
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.59539/1679-432X-v10n2-175Keywords:
Winnicott; facilitating features; creative thinking; Lovejoy; Bloom.Abstract
Following the death of a prolific thinker and writer such as D. W. Winnicott, who was not a participant in any school of psychoanalytic thought and who eschewed any formal following of his own thinking, it is a valid question to ask whether or not his thinking dies with him or does it continue to have a discernible presence and growth in anyone else’s thinking, and if so, what form does that presence take? This paper outlines the questions asked and the method used in my study undertaken to look at the evolution of Winnicott’s thinking during his lifetime and since his passing in a further two generations of his analytic family. It discusses the identifi ed ‘facilitating features’ of Winnicott’s thinking and explores the implications arising from these features.References
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