Playing and Reality By: Donald Woods Winnicott

Author: D.W. Winnicott

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.AcknowledgementsIntroduction1 Transitional Objects & Transitional Phenomena2 Dreaming, Fantasying & A Case-history describing a Primary Dissociation3 A Theoretical Statement4 Creative Activity & the Search for the Self5 Creativity & its Origins6 The Use of an Object & Relating through Identifications7 The Location of Cultural Experience8 The Place where we Live9 Mirror-role of Mother & Family in Child Development10 Interrelating apart from Instinctual Drive & in terms of Cross-identifications11 Contemporary Concepts of Adolescent Development & their Implications for Higher EducationTailpieceReferencesIndex