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No. 54 (2021)

Jung and Winnicott: Secret resonances

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3280/jun54-2021oa13148
Submitted
gennaio 12, 2022
Published
2022-02-10

Abstract

The author, starting from personal cues, hypothesizes secret resonances between Jung and Winnicott, so different but linked by a deep search. Starting from Jung's first dream, recorded in his diary Memoirs, Dreams, Reflections, and a poem by Winnicott, The Tree, the author ventures into open questions about Jung's position as described in the Memoirs and Winnicott's position in his review of Jung's diary. The exchanges of letters between Winnicott and Fordham are also considered. The author proposes a deeper and more emotional reading of a common departure of the two masters from the fact of having had depressed mothers and the process of each of them starting from this situation so significant for both. The two differ immensely, but it seems to the author that Jung may have somehow 'helped' Winnicott to face and recognize the presence of a unitary continuum of being, on which Winnicott reflected in his last works.

 

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