D.W. WINNICOTT AND INTERPRETATIONS IN PSYCHOANALYTIC WORK. A REVIEW ОF TWO WORKS BY D.W. WINNICOTT, DEDICATED TO THE TOPIC OF THE INTERPRETATION IN PSYCHOANALYTIC WORK: “HOLDING AND INTERPRETATION: FRAGMENT OF AN ANALYSIS” (1958) AND “INTERPRETATIONS IN P
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https://doi.org/10.32782/upj/2025-3-3-5Keywords:
interpretation, holding, countertransference, mirroring, regression, boredom, true/false Self, “here and now”, communication, playing.Abstract
Abstract. The presented text analyzes two works by D. W. Winnicott: “Holding and Interpretation: A Fragment of Analysis” (1958) and “Interpretations in Psychoanalysis” (1968). The Winnicottian approach to the technique of interpretation is seen: the avoiding of the pursuit of intellectual expla- nation or the teaching of the patient, but using of the emotional holding and mirroring the patient's inner world. Particular respect is given to the clinical case of Winnicottian patient B., the phenomenon of “boredom” as a diagnostic one, counter-transfer and survival of the analyst, as well as the ethics of the analyst's recognition of “not-knowing” and his own mistakes. The material is relevant for the current Ukrainian context, as it reinforces the feasibility and importance of psychoanalytic work in the hour of war.
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