However, it can't be helped; mothers, if they do their job properly, are the representatives of the hard, demanding world and it is they who gradually introduce reality which is so often the enemy of impulse. There is anger with mother and hatred is somewhere even when there is absolutely no doubt of love that is mixed with adoration.
I don't mind saying in advance that in my opinion jealousy is normal and healthy. Jealousy arises out of the fact that children love. If they have no… - Donald Woods Winnicott
I don't mind saying in advance that in my opinion jealousy is normal and healthy. Jealousy arises out of the fact that children love. If they have no…
- Donald Woods Winnicott
Tell me what you fear and I will tell you what has happened to you. - Donald Woods Winnicott
Tell me what you fear and I will tell you what has happened to you.
There is no such thing as a baby, there is a baby and someone. - Donald Woods Winnicott
There is no such thing as a baby, there is a baby and someone.
Feeling real is more than existing; it is finding a way to exist as oneself... and to have a self into which to retreat for relaxation. - Donald Woods Winnicott
Feeling real is more than existing; it is finding a way to exist as oneself... and to have a self into which to retreat for relaxation.
Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide. - Donald Woods Winnicott
Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.
It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in be… - Donald Woods Winnicott
It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in be…
Creativity consists in maintaining a key aspect of the experience of childhood throughout one's life: the capacity to create and recreate the world. … - Donald Woods Winnicott
Creativity consists in maintaining a key aspect of the experience of childhood throughout one's life: the capacity to create and recreate the world. …
The fact that grief takes so long to resolve is not a sign of inadequacy, but betokens depth of soul. - Donald Woods Winnicott
The fact that grief takes so long to resolve is not a sign of inadequacy, but betokens depth of soul.
What is a normal child like? Does he just eat and grow and smile sweetly? No, that is not what he is like. The normal child, if he has confidence in … - Donald Woods Winnicott
What is a normal child like? Does he just eat and grow and smile sweetly? No, that is not what he is like. The normal child, if he has confidence in …
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