« We must meet, in the psychology of childhood, the struggles that we ourselves have gone through, but forgotten for the most part, unless we have never even been aware of them. »
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Donald W. Winnicott
Human nature |
Donald W. Winnicott
Human nature
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« For human nature, righteousness `honesty` seems very close to being something irreducible, and I will set out why I think it is not really irreducible and how I think it can be analyzed further. But, whatever the origin of righteousness, it is certain that the little child . . . can be unseriously touched when he discovers that it is neither good nor good to be upright. Without getting into the good or the good, what makes the child come to understand that righteousness is not necessarily the best course of action? »
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Donald W. Winnicott
Fear of collapse and other clinical situations |
Donald W. Winnicott
Fear of collapse and other clinical situations
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« The transitional object represents the mother's ability to present the world in such a way that the little child is not required to know immediately that the object is not created by the child. »
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Donald W. Winnicott
Game and reality |
Donald W. Winnicott
Game and reality
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