Élaboration sans fin du deuil de l'objet primaire chez winnicott ou le paradoxe de la séparation

Abstract

The author reminds us that it was analysis that allowed Winnicott to consider babies as human beings and concludes that original mourning for the state of union with the mother, who is probably depressed, is a psychic task that continues throughout one's whole life, as curative dreams of the integration of the psychotic part of one's personality reveal. The discovery of the transitional space, of the capacity to be alone and of the use of the object via its externalisation, enabled Winnicott to understand what were the favourable conditions for the working over of the depressive position and for the treatment of primary disassociations resulting from early disturbances. These disassociations are accessible in the treatment via the presence of a living and creative transferential object.