« By choosing to approach the study of human nature through the question of development, which allows the refocusing of different points of view, I hope to be able to make clear how, from a primary fusion between the individual and the environment, something fuses, the individual putting at stake what he wants and becoming able to exist in a world that wants nothing. »
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Donald W. Winnicott
Human nature |
Donald W. Winnicott
Human nature
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« A major point of what I have advanced regarding transitional phenomena is our consent to never subject the child to an alternative of the type: did you create this object or did you simply find it there, at your convenience? In other words, an essential feature of transitional phenomena and objects is in a certain quality of our attitude, in the very time we observe them." »
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Donald W. Winnicott
Game and reality |
Donald W. Winnicott
Game and reality
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« I am appalled when I think of the profound changes I have prevented or delayed in patients belonging to a certain nosographic category by my personal need to interpret. »
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Donald W. Winnicott
Game and reality |
Donald W. Winnicott
Game and reality
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