1st Edition

Winnicott's Psychoanalysis of Being Emotional Development as Phenomenology-Based Psychology

By Leopoldo Fulgencio Copyright 2027
322 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

322 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Winnicott’s Psychoanalysis of Being  offers a profound exploration of Donald Winnicott’s revolutionary contributions to psychoanalysis, focusing on his unique theory of emotional development as a psychology in conceptual agreement with certain conceptions of phenomenology and modern existentialism.   In this book, Leopoldo Fulgencio examines the philosophical and existential foundations of... Read more

Acknowledgements  Origins of the work  Introduction to the Brazilian Edition  Preface to the Second Brazilian Edition  New Introduction for the English-speaking Market  PART 1: FOUNDATIONS  1. Resonances of Some Conceptions of Modern Existentialism in Winnicott’s Thought  2. The Need for Being as the Foundation of Winnicott’s Theory of Development  3. Winnicott’s Conception of Human Nature  PART 2: STRUCTURE  4. Description of the Process of Emotional Development from Winnicott’s Perspective  5. Winnicott's Ethics of Psychotherapeutic Care  PART 3: TERMINOLOGY AND OVERVIEW  6. Thematic Terminology of Winnicott’s Theoretical Semantics  7. Overview of the Phases of the Development of Being  8. FINAL CONSIDERATIONS AS TELOS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH

Biography

Leopoldo Fulgencio is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Psychology, University of São Paulo, Brazil.

‘This essential text for understanding modern psychoanalysis explores the profound resonance between Winnicott's ideas and modern existentialism and phenomenology. This scholarly work offers an in-depth reflection on the mode of being-in-the-world, serving as a profound elaboration of what Ogden defined as ontological psychoanalysis: a process of generating experience that liberates the individual from the 'dictatorship' of the anonymous impersonal mode of being. It is also a profound reflexion about the ethics of caritas.’

Elias M. da Rocha Barros, Distinguished Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society and Training Analyst and Lecturer of the São Paulo Psychoanalytical Society