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« Rejoice in all `that motherhood means` to you. In addition, the pleasure you can derive from the messy work of caring for the baby is vitally important to the baby. The baby does not want so much that he is given a suitable meal at a suitable time, but to be fed by someone who likes to feed him. The baby considers the softness of his clothes and the right temperature of the bath water to be natural. The mother's pleasure is different from the baby's dressing and bathing. If these things are happy, it is for him as the sun rises. The mother's pleasure must be there, otherwise everything is dead, useless and mechanical. »
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Donald W. Winnicott
The child and his family |
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Donald W. Winnicott
The child and his family
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« But then what precedes the first object relationship? For my part, I have been struggling with this problem for a long time. I started about ten years ago, declaring passionately in this Society: "But a baby, there is no such thing!" Worried about hearing me utter such words, I tried to give my reasons: I pointed out that when I am shown a baby, I am certainly also shown someone who cares for him, or at least a pram to which someone's eyes and ears are riveted. There is a "nurse-infant couple." anxiety associated with insecurity. 1952 »
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Donald W. Winnicott
From pediatrics to psychoanalysis |
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Donald W. Winnicott
From pediatrics to psychoanalysis
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« The flight phases of the child who has lost something and who is healing can be said to be part of the quest for the transitional object that has been lost as a result of death or weakening of the internalized version of the mother. »
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Donald W. Winnicott
The child and his family |
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Donald W. Winnicott
The child and his family
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