Dear Winnicott group, Re-found while cleaning my desk/papers, Jan Stensson's "On Writing Psychoanalysis," in which he compares different kinds of "use of...
mikeigen@...
Mar 5, 2003 4:23 pm
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Hello Everyone, A question came up in a therapy session today with a client. I thought I would put it out to the list and see what people think. In Playing...
Deborah, I'm interested in others' views on this, because in my understanding and use of the concept of potential space it means a bounded area that has no...
Franksum@...
Mar 6, 2003 5:48 am
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Dear Deborah: It is hard for me to believe that people like Saddam and Bush have any transitional space at all. Both seem to act literally, i canīt think of...
Hi: Would anyone want to assert that DWW himself had a precise definition of "potential space"? His students often remarked that his lectures had an ...
Dear Frank, You wrote: <<because in my understanding and use of the concept of potential space it means a bounded area that has no defined meaning within the...
Dear Joel, Thank you for your response. I agree DWW was descriptive in a particular sense of the portential space, but not definitive. That is why I am...
Dear Andres, Thank you for your thoughtful reply. You know, they speak of "war games", which of course are neither creative nor contribute to culture (or do...
Andres, Joel, Frank et al, I'm wondering if the memory of the field of the potential space gets taken out of the mother/infant matrix and brought into...
In a message dated 3/6/2003 7:56:52 AM Pacific Standard Time, ... Deborah, it seems like Linda Hopkin's paper "Masud Kahn's Application of Winnicott's Play...
Dear Deborah: Speaking about Bush and Saddam: have you thought about envy feelings? "I want to destroy what you have, and i donīt" (oil for example?) ...
Hi Bev, I'm so glad my question had brought you into wider participation with the list. I would love to see Linda Hopkins paper. I must have missed the...
Deborah Lowery Hi Bev, I'm so glad my question had brought you into wider participation with the list. I would love to see Linda Hopkins paper. I must have...
Andres, I am not "sensing" envy in this picture. I think Sadam could have whatever he wants. I believe his pathology lie in his early environment, which I...
Dear Andres, Ok, I will have to think about your question, am I pointing out the difference between potential space and transitional space. This may take a...
Deb, The way i see it, transitional experience and objects are a developmental phase beginning with the child's first awareness of separateness-- the use of...
Franksum@...
Mar 6, 2003 5:15 pm
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Dear Frank, "book on which I am now working the theme of which is the use of potential space to create the self in the analytic process....Oh boy, let us know...
Deborah Lowery Dear Andres, Ok, I will have to think about your question, am I pointing out the difference between potential space and transitional space....
In a message dated 3/6/03 10:51:04 AM Eastern Standard Time, ... "Potential space" refers to a moment when the idea of the self is not symbiotically bound to...
psycheculture@...
Mar 7, 2003 2:13 am
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In a message dated 3/6/2003 12:15:56 PM Eastern Standard Time, ... Dear Frank, I would really like you to expand on this fragment, particularly as it might...
Hi. First, I want to thank Edmond for his comments about "maternal" o "feminine" element as "receptive" instead of "passive". About potential space: I am...
Hi Everyone, Thank you so much for a lively discussion of potential space. I hope there's more. I am on my way out of town for a few days, just so no one...
In a message dated 3/7/03 1:01:43 AM, bergerb@... writes: << we are very anxious-when we feel threaten because "enemies and dangers" in our...
mikeigen@...
Mar 7, 2003 3:30 pm
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... It seems to me that potential space and the ability to utilize it depend on a facilitating holding environment. There is an insurance company whose motto...
Brad McCormick, Ed.D.
bradmcc@...
Mar 7, 2003 11:39 pm
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In a message dated 3/7/03 1:00:56 AM Eastern Standard Time, ... The fundamental question is why we identify so deeply with these "external events" even when...
psycheculture@...
Mar 8, 2003 2:03 am
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First, let me say how grateful I am to have all of you to converse with about the idea of potential space. You are the only group with whom I can have such a...
Franksum@...
Mar 8, 2003 5:11 am
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Franksum@... First, let me say how grateful I am to have all of you to converse with about the idea of potential space. You are the only group with whom I...
... From: psycheculture@... To: winnicott@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 04:03 Subject: Re: [winnicott] potential space In a message dated...