'Winnicott's Dream: A Critique of Winnicott's Thought as a Form of
Mystical Narcissism'
by Mats Winther
http://www.cgjungpage.org/articles/w_dream3.html

R.J.E. Bacon in Free Assoc. 50/2002 expresses clearly
mixed feelings about Winnicott when he describes his
thinking as "weird", but he is also partly appreciative.
Also Brett Kahr, in Free Assoc. 46/1999 and 54/2003,
expresses serious qualms about Winnicott's moral
character. Kahr says that it was Winnicott that pushed
Masud Khan over the edge into an outright narcissism.

It's somewhat hard to come to grips with Winnicott,
perhaps because of a certain level of obscurity and the
many "weird" ratiocinations, lacking sufficient
empirical ground. Today, as the above examples show,
it's becoming possible to give utterance to a certain
uneasiness about this post-Freudian house-god, without
putting one's career at peril.

It's time to come to grips with Winnicott and to
understand what he is all about, so I've decided to
pour a whole can of kerozene on this subject. This
article aims at an understanding of his underlying
premises (sensitive readers be warned):
http://www.cgjungpage.org/articles/w_dream3.html





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