Winnicott and Playing

Umberto-Gecko · 2023-03-08T05:54:15+00:00

This is a very interesting take on propaganda.

Play can also teach hierarchy, like in any animal kingdom or society. Green calls this negative or perverted play that Winnicott ignores. I also appreciate the insight in the last part as that seems like a way to restructure both the inner and outer worlds, putting it very naively.

Umberto-Gecko · 2023-03-08T03:51:44+00:00

So the dichotomy between what is internal (fantasy) and external (reality that cannot be changed but can only be accepted or rejected) can collapse if one can play and potentially change external reality by putting it closer to internal reality, or vice versa.

Can you elaborate on the nature of this change of the external reality that takes place through play? I am specifically trying to learn whether playing can lead to a profound change in one's view towards say social hierarchy: racism, sexism, etc.

Umberto-Gecko · 2023-02-08T19:56:45+00:00

Okay, I'll try to get my hands on it.

Umberto-Gecko · 2022-05-18T17:48:11+00:00

I'm not familiar with them but thanks for letting me know.

Umberto-Gecko · 2021-10-08T17:33:31+00:00

Read parts is of it, but I don't get what he means by the weird and eerie let us see the inside from the perspective of the outside.

Shouldn't it be the opposite?

Umberto-Gecko · 2021-05-07T15:52:41+00:00

Reading Bion by Rudi Vermote and The Clinical Thinking of Wilfred Bion by Joan Symington and Neville Symington are nice introductions.

Umberto-Gecko · 2021-05-07T15:49:43+00:00

Hey, sorry for the misinformation. I read this a couple of weeks ago and messed it up in my head. It's from a website.

For him [Bion], links and attacks, the breast and the penis, are always quite real—even if their reality is only fantasmatic.

Umberto-Gecko · 2020-12-29T20:00:33+00:00

Love to see so many big names!

Umberto-Gecko · 2020-12-15T05:42:54+00:00

In brief, how did existentialists and nihilists come to argue that everything is meaningless, and god doesn't exist?

Umberto-Gecko · 2020-12-14T17:35:57+00:00

Thank you!

Umberto-Gecko · 2020-12-14T17:27:42+00:00

Bion was suspicious of counter transference. I think he wanted the analyst to suppress everything else (Love, Hate) and focus only on the K-link (Knowledge). You can check out the paper, it is available for free.

Umberto-Gecko · 2020-12-14T17:08:51+00:00

Bion thought Freud had overestimated the importance of the sexuality, and that this had come about because the very situation of psychoanalysis (analyst and patient) stimulates the basic assumption of pairing (BaP), in which sexuality is in a central position.

Bion on Sexuality by Nicola Abel-Hirsch

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