title: Winnicott and Lacan: a missed encounter?
abstract: Winnicott was able to say that Lacan's paper on the mirror stage "had certainly influenced" him, while Lacan argued that he found his object a in Winnicott's transitional object. By following the development of their personal relations, as well as of their theoretical discussions, it is possible to argue that this was a missed encounter--yet a happily missed one, since the misunderstandings of their theoretical exchanges allowed each of them to clarify concepts otherwise difficult to discern.
authors: University of Paris Diderot, Center for Research in Psychoanalysis, Medicine, and Society. alain.vanier@univ-paris-diderot.fr
authors: Alain
authors: A
authors: Vanier
mesh_terms: D004532:Ego; D006212:Hallucinations / Q000523:psychology; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D011572:Psychoanalysis / Q000266:history*; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory