1st Edition

Finding Winnicott Philosophical Encounters with the Psychoanalytic

By Fadi Abou-Rihan Copyright 2023
174 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

174 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

174 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

In Finding Winnicott: Philosophical Encounters with the Psychoanalytic , Fadi Abou-Rihan expands upon Winnicott’s category of the found object and argues that a genuine understanding of the analyst’s own thought requires that it be considered in relation to that of another. The essays in this collection are in dialogue with the work of Freud, Deleuze and Guattari, Laplanche, Bonaventure, Ibn... Read more
Preface  1. Rationales  2. Findings  3. Series  4. Solitudes  5. Games  6. Spaces  7. Properties

Biography

Fadi Abou-Rihan, PhD is a psychoanalyst in private practice. He lives, writes, and works in Toronto, Canada.

'Transitional space is where finding entwines subject and object in curious, unsettling ways. The evocative verbs finding, dreaming, playing and analysing are put through a Winnicottian lens, refracting the clinical alongside the philosophical as objects of play. As we pass through games, spaces and properties of thinking and being, the apparently simple-complexities of DWW inspire the reader as we re-view analytic theory. A page turner indeed.'

Dr Jonathan Sklar, Training Analyst, British Psychoanalytic Society, UK