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« Married people without children can find, and indeed find, a thousand other ways to have a family, to the point of sometimes being those with the largest family. But the fact remains that they would have preferred to have children of their own. »
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The family good enough |
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The family good enough
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« Something in human nature seems to be waiting for a wound, and it is better that it be a child rather than a disease or a catastrophe affecting the surroundings. »
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The family good enough |
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The family good enough
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« The child enjoys discovering that aggressive or hateful urges can be expressed in a known environment, without a return of hatred and violence on the part of the environment. A child feels that a good environment should be able to withstand the aggressive feelings expressed in a more or less acceptable form. `...` We may not like to be hated or hurt, but we must not ignore what underlies self-control when it comes to angry impulses. »
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Donald W. Winnicott
Transitional objects |
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Donald W. Winnicott
Transitional objects
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