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Winnicott's dream: some reflections on D. W. Winnicott and C. G. Jung
Author(s) -
Sedgwick David
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
journal of analytical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.285
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1468-5922
pISSN - 0021-8774
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-5922.2008.00745.x
Subject(s) - psychoanalysis , dream , unconscious mind , biography , philosophy , object (grammar) , object relations theory , psychoanalytic theory , psychology , psychotherapist , literature , art , linguistics
: The author discusses D. W. Winnicott's 1964 review of C. G. Jung's autobiography, Memories, Dreams, Reflections , emphasizing the psychological effect the reviewing process had on Winnicott himself. Writing the review constellated Winnicott's unconscious, and he reported having a healing dream ‘for Jung and for some of my patients, as well as for myself’. Winnicott's ‘countertransference’ to Jung helped him personally, and the review was Winnicott's first written formulation of his theory on ‘The use of an object’.