Playing and Reality Revisited

Playing and Reality Revisited is the first volume of a new IPA series dedicated to the greatest writings of psychoanalysis. More than forty years after its publication, Donald W. Winnicott's Playing and Reality is still a source of inspiration for numerous psychoanalysts. The authors have invited some of the most eminent specialists of Winnicott's thinking to write on the most significant themes that the author discovered and highlighted brillantly in his book. They show how such concepts as transitional object and phenomena, the use of an object, and mirroring, remain essential today, and explore the way in which Winnicott conceived playing, creativity, cultural experience and adolescence, demonstrating their contemporary relevance. This book is both an homage to Winnicott and a fascinating extension of his work.

Gennaro Saragnano

IPA Publications Committee , Introduction , Illusion in the origins of transitional phenomena and transitional objects 1 , Playing , Playing: listening to the enacted dimension of the analytic process , Creative processes and artistic creation , Genesis, primal scene, and self-engenderment , Creativity: a new paradigm for Freudian psychoanalysis , Further reflections on Winnicott's last major theoretical achievement: from "Relating through identifications" to "The use of an object" , The use of an object: Winnicott and ternary thought , Thoughts on "Cultural experience and its location" , The mirror role of mother and family in child development: a reflection , Ruptures and reconnections: play as a thread for sewing up? , Mirroring, mirrors, and proto-oedipal constellations , Playing and Reality revisited: clinical practice with adolescents in the twenty-first century