Playing and Reality (Routledge Classics)

What are the origins of creativity and how can we develop it - whether within ourselves or in others? Not only does Playing and Reality address these questions, it also tackles many more that surround the fundamental issue of the individual self and its relationship with the outside world. In this landmark book of twentieth-century psychology, Winnicott shows the reader how, through the attentive nurturing of creativity from the earliest years, every individual has the opportunity to enjoy a rich and rewarding cultural life. Today, as the 'hothousing' and testing of children begins at an ever-younger age, Winnicott's classic text is a more urgent and topical read than ever before.First published in 1971, Playing and Reality has been reprinted many times since. This edition 2009. Cover ......Page 1 Title Page ......Page 4 Copyright ......Page 5 Dedication ......Page 6 Table of Contents ......Page 8 Acknowledgements ......Page 10 Preface ......Page 12 Introduction ......Page 16 1. Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena ......Page 20 2. Dreaming, Fantasying and Living: A case-history describing a Primary Dissociation ......Page 54 3. Playing: A theoretical statement ......Page 70 4. Playing: Creative activity and the search for the self ......Page 90 5. Creativity and Its Origins ......Page 106 6. The Use of an Object and Relating through Identifications ......Page 134 7. The Location of Cultural Experience ......Page 147 8. The Place Where We Live ......Page 159 9. The Mirror-Role of Mother and Family in Child Development ......Page 168 10. Interrelating Apart from Instinctual Drive and in Terms of Cross-Identifications ......Page 179 11. Contemporary Concepts of Adolescent Development and their Implications for Higher Education ......Page 205 Tailpiece ......Page 223 References ......Page 224 Index ......Page 228 Back Cover ......Page 234 "For the pioneering psychologist D.W. Winnicott, a creative approach to the world is what makes life worth living. But what are the origins of creativity and how can we develop it - whether within ourselves or in others? Not only does Playing and Reality address these questions, it also tackles many more that surround the fundamental issue of the individual self and its relationship with the outside world. In this landmark book of twentieth-century psychology he shows the reader how, through the attentive nurturing of creativity from the earliest years, every individual has the opportunity to enjoy a rich and rewarding cultural life. Today, as the 'hothousing' and testing of children begins at an ever-younger age, Winnicott's classic text is a more urgent and topical read than ever before."--BOOK JACKET

What are the origins of creativity and how can we develop it - whether within ourselves or in others? Not only does Playing and Reality address these questions, it also tackles many more that surround the fundamental issue of the individual self and its relationship with the outside world. In this landmark book of twentieth-century psychology, Winnicott shows the reader how, through the attentive nurturing of creativity from the earliest years, every individual has the opportunity to enjoy a rich and rewarding cultural life. Today, as the 'hothousing' and testing of children begins at an ever-younger age, Winnicott's classic text is a more urgent and topical read than ever before.

What are the origins of creativity and how can we develop it - whether within ourselves or in others? Not only does [this book] address these questions, it also tackles many more that surround the fundamental issue of the individual self and its relationship with the outside world. In [the book], he shows the reader how, through the attentive nurturing of creativity from the earliest years, every individual has the opportunity to enjoy a rich and rewarding cultural life.-Back cover It is well known that infants as soon as they are born tend to use fist, fingers, thumbs in stimulation of the oral erotogenic zone, in satisfaction of the instincts at that zone, and also in quiet union. Winnicott is concerned with the springs of imaginative living and of cultural experience in every sense, with whatever determines an individual's capacity to live creatively and to find life worth living.