The feeling of real

On Winnicott’s “Communicating and Not Communicating Leading to a Study of Certain Opposites”

Dados Bibliográficos

ID8971244
AutoresThomas H Ogden (0000-0001-8800-1435, Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, autor correspondente)
Ano2018
Volume99
Fascículo6
Páginas1288-1304
Data de publicação2018-11-02
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe International Journal of Psychoanalysis (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0020-7578 • E-ISSN: 1745-8315
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00207578.2018.1556071
OpenAlexW2910396099
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas15
Referências citadas13

In “Communicating and Not Communicating Leading to a Study of Certain Opposites,” Winnicott introduces the radical idea that communicating with subjective objects is “cul-de-sac” communication (communication not meant for any external or internal object), but which nonetheless endows every aspect of one’s experience with “all the sense of real.” He conceives of the “main point” of his paper to be the idea that “each individual is an isolate, permanently non-communicating, permanently unknown, in fact unfound.” I suggest that the “main point” is more inclusive and might be stated as: each individual needs equally to be found (recognized, but not exposed) and to be unfound (an incommunicado isolate). Winnicott warns that when an analysis has reached the depths of the patient’s personality, interpreting destructively introduces what is “not-me” too close to the core self, so “the analyst had better wait.” An unstated question arises: what does the analyst do while he waits other than remaining silent? I respond to this question by giving clinical examples from my own clinical work. Winnicott ends the paper with the language of poetry in his effort to communicate something of the mystery of being that is “absolutely personal” to each of us. Winnicott at the end of his paper sheds the language of prose and adopts the language of poetry in what I view as his effort to communicate something of the mystery of being

Epistemology · Feeling · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Object (grammar · Personality · Poetry · Point (geometry · Psychoanalysis · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology