Role of the Mother
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Why do psychoanalysts attribute complex experiences to babies?
Most psychoanalysts attribute a great deal of importance to people’s early experiences, but the stories they tell seem far removed from what we would normally say about the experiences of babies and very young children. The school of psychoanalysis that does this in the most striking (and sometimes most offensive) way is Kleinianism, so it Continue reading
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The World is My World – Wittgenstein vs Winnicott
“The world as it presents itself is of no meaning to the newly developing human being unless it is created as well as discovered.” Donald Winnicott How should we think about our relationship with the external world and with other people? Since Descartes, philosophers have started with the experiencing subject and then run into difficulties. Continue reading
Wittgenstein and Freud 