Blogs about: Winnicott
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Structure and Process
In the early 1950’s, Winnicott had identified the transitional (whether object, phenomenon, or space) as the bridge between inner life and outer reality, a bridge that, presumably, the subject must se… more →
THE PSYCHOANALYTIC FIELD
Structure and Process
Fadi Abou-Rihan wrote 2 weeks ago: In the early 1950’s, Winnicott had identified the transitional (whether object, phenomenon, or space … more →
Losing Objects
Fadi Abou-Rihan wrote 1 month ago: Freud thought the dream the royal road to the unconscious and the dream book itself the jewel of his … more →
Good-enough Parenting
familyvillage wrote 1 month ago: In my previous article on parenting I referred to the constant juggling act we have to perform as p … more →
From Eruption to Frontier to Aevum...
Fadi Abou-Rihan wrote 1 month ago: Be it in terms of the settling into the depressive position, the resolution of the Oedipus complex, … more →
The Middle - 2: Aevum Philosophicum
Fadi Abou-Rihan wrote 1 month ago: [Go ahead; look closer. It’s next to where just about everything Greek used to be trashed before it … more →
The Middle - 1: Limbus Analyticus
Fadi Abou-Rihan wrote 1 month ago: An object that is at times animated and at others inert, at times the focus of intense affective inv … more →
The Psychoanalysis of Irrelevance
Fadi Abou-Rihan wrote 2 months ago: Picking up from where I left off in the previous post, there is little that’s comfortable or f … more →
The Irrelevance of Psychoanalysis (?!)
Fadi Abou-Rihan wrote 2 months ago: I want to turn to the possibility that psychoanalysis may acquire the status of a found object and h … more →
Intelligibility - Ownership
Fadi Abou-Rihan wrote 2 months ago: If the found object must begin as animated and vital and only later can it move on to become irrelev … more →
Transitional objects
Perfectionist Gal wrote 2 months ago: Linus from the “Peanuts” comic strip is infamous for carrying around his security bla … more →
Murky Subjects
Fadi Abou-Rihan wrote 2 months ago: Though he insists that any given found object must eventually be decathected, Winnicott does not so … more →
Winnicott the philosopher
Fadi Abou-Rihan wrote 2 months ago: Freud often considered himself as one of those scientists committed to empirical authority. He, for … more →
Culture/Illusion
Fadi Abou-Rihan wrote 2 months ago: Speaking of “the whole cultural field,” and without straying away from the text where the found obje … more →
Animation, resilience, irrelevance
Fadi Abou-Rihan wrote 3 months ago: For it to qualify as found, Winnicott highlights three interlocking moments rather than, say, charac … more →
More than an object
Fadi Abou-Rihan wrote 3 months ago: Winnicott tells us that the found object is part of the world of the real—and hence not merely the … more →
Findings
Fadi Abou-Rihan wrote 3 months ago: I begin with the activity Winnicott terms play, the play that unfolds between child and “found” obje … more →
Away
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Pete wrote 4 months ago: I’m leaving in a few minutes for a week-long work trip to Upington in case you’re wondering wh … more →
Andrew Bird's Lull: An Elegant Symphony on The Capacity to Be Alone
disembedded wrote 6 months ago: Andrew Bird’s Lull: An Elegant Symphony on The Capacity to Be Alone Andrew Bird’s … more →
The dance of therapy
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Pete wrote 8 months ago: Butterfly by Tommok at Flickr I took the plunge and went for a session of therapy with a new therapi … more →
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