1st Edition

The Person Who Is Me Contemporary Perspectives on the True and False

By Val Richards Copyright 1996
    116 Pages
    by Routledge

    116 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book focuses on one of D. W. Winnicott's most enduring and resonant formulations, the True and False Self. It is a salutary reminder of Winnicott's capacity as the acclaimed advocate of maternal "holding"—also for sharpness and for the sudden piercing stab of recognition.

    Introduction -- Ego distortion in terms of True and False Self -- Hunt the slipper -- Winnicott and Lacan: selfhood versus subjecthood -- The emergence of a sense of Self, or, The development of “I-ness” -- Looking after the Self -- The Self: what is it?

    Biography

    Richards, Val