Bar Haim, Shaul (2019) The Psychoanalytic Languages: On the Intimate Rivalry of Michael Balint and D.W. Winnicott. Psychoanalysis and History, 21 (1). pp. 73-103. DOI https://doi.org/10.3366/pah.2019.0282
Bar Haim, Shaul (2019) The Psychoanalytic Languages: On the Intimate Rivalry of Michael Balint and D.W. Winnicott. Psychoanalysis and History, 21 (1). pp. 73-103. DOI https://doi.org/10.3366/pah.2019.0282
Bar Haim, Shaul (2019) The Psychoanalytic Languages: On the Intimate Rivalry of Michael Balint and D.W. Winnicott. Psychoanalysis and History, 21 (1). pp. 73-103. DOI https://doi.org/10.3366/pah.2019.0282
Abstract
The article presents and discusses a two-decades correspondence between Michael Balint and D.W. Winnicott. Alongside closeness and friendship, the letters reveal tensions, disagreement and even rivalry between Balint and Winnicott on three main levels: personal, cultural and theoretical. The debate can be framed around the question of whether or not the British School of Psychoanalysis that emerged in the 1950s – and in which Winnicott and Balint were arguably the most senior figures – was a continuation of the psychoanalytic tradition that developed before the Second World War by Sandor Ferenczi and the Budapest School. The article argues, however, that there is another meta-theoretical level to the debate between the two: they passionately try to define what is the psychoanalytic language, and disagree about its real nature.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Psychoanalytic language; Balint; Winnicott; Independent Group; Budapest School |
Subjects: | R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0500 Psychoanalysis |
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology and Criminology, Department of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 23 Nov 2018 13:20 |
Last Modified: | 30 Oct 2024 17:28 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/23509 |
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