Winnicott's Letter to Bion

Playing, Dreaming, and Beyond
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-81921-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 210 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: The International Psychoanalytical Association International Psychoanalysis Library

Winnicott’s Letter to Bion presents reflections on a fascinating moment in the history of psychoanalytic thinking.

Donald Winnicott’s letter, sent on October 5, 1967, and conveying thoughts about two of Wilfred Bion’s papers, never received a response. In this book, international contributors elaborate on the contents of the letter, overlapping and divergent projects of the two psychoanalysts, and the meaning of Bion’s silence. The chapters consider topics including the historical context of their work, their focuses on play and reverie, and the question of the sensuous.

Winnicott’s Letter to Bion will be of great interest to psychoanalysts in practice and in training, and to historians of psychoanalysis.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Practice & Development, and Professional Reference

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lovett, Christopher G.

Cooper, Steven H.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series editor’s Foreword

Foreword

-  Nicola Abel-Hirsch, Bion’s Letter

-  Leslie Caldwell, Imagining Engagement

-  Giuseppe Civitarese, Melanie Klein would not allow this: Winnicott’s Shadowboxing in his letter to Bion, October 5, 1967

-  Steven H. Cooper, Winnicott’s Paradox: Being With and Without Memory and Desire

-  Paulo Fabozzi, Winnicott’s Research: Between Parallel Convergences and Uniqueness

-  Jack Foehl, Pluperfect Errands in the Controversial Discussions of Bion

-  Peter Goldberg, ‘On the question of the sensuous in Winnicott/Bion

-  Robert D. Hinshelwood, Winnicott to Bion – Reflections on Winnicott’s Letter

-  Christopher Lovett, On Not Playing with Winnicott: A Not-So-Curious Case of Non-Communication

-  Mauro Manica, An oracle (perhaps a miracle) at the British Psychoanalytical Society: Winnicott’s Letter to Bion of 5 October 1967

-  Elena Molinari, Reading what is not in a book: Dreaming and playing with words

-  Michael Parsons, What Life Itself is About

-  Bruce Reis, Winnicott and Bion: Communicating and Not Communicating

-  Steve Seligman, ‘Holding and Containing: Winnicott, Bion and  Klein on Infancy and the Infantile

Über Autor(innen)

Steven H. Cooper is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, and the Columbia Centre for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. A recipient of the JAPA Prize in 1989, he is also Chief Editor Emeritus of Psychoanalytic Dialogues. He is the author of numerous papers and seven books on psychoanalysis.

Christopher G. Lovett trained at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, where he currently serves on the faculty. A former member of the editorial boards of The International Journal of Psychoanalysis and The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, he maintains a private practice in Newton Centre, Massachusetts.