Playing and Reality

Winnicott is concerned with the springs of imaginative living & of cultural experience in every sense, with whatever determines an individual's capacity to live creatively & to find life worth living.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Transitional Objects & Transitional Phenomena
2 Dreaming, Fantasying & Living: A Case-history describing a Primary Dissociation
3 Playing: A Theoretical Statement
4 Playing: Creative Activity & the Search for the Self
5 Creativity & its Origins
6 The Use of an Object & Relating through Identifications
7 The Location of Cultural Experience
8 The Place where we Live
9 Mirror-role of Mother & Family in Child Development
10 Interrelating apart from Instinctual Drive & in terms of Cross-identifications
11 Contemporary Concepts of Adolescent Development & their Implications for Higher Education
Tailpiece
References
Index