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D. W. Winnicott and Political Theory: Recentering the Subject

Author(s) : Matthew H. Bowker, Editor : Amy Buzby

Table of Contents

Introduction
Matthew H. Bowker, Amy Buzby

The Subject’s Creation: Aggression, Isolation, and Destruction
1. Being and Encountering: Movement and Aggression in Winnicott
Jeremy Elkins

2. The Isolation of the True Self and the Problem of Impingement: Implications of Winnicott’s Theory for Social Connection and Political Engagement
David P. Levine

3. The Psychoanalytic Winnicott We Need Now: On the Way to a Real Ecological Thought
Melissa A. Orlie

The Subject Faced with Deprivation and Disaster
4. Playing ‘Riot’: Identity in Refuge—Absent Child Narratives in the 2013 Hindu–Muslim Riots in Muzaffarnagar, India
Zehra Mehdi

5. Safety in Danger and Privacy in Privation: Ambivalent Fantasies of Natural States Invoked in Reaction to Loss
Matthew H. Bowker

6. “Out Like a Lion”: Melancholia with Euripides and Winnicott
Bonnie Honig

7. Forgiveness and Transitional Experience
C. Fred Alford

Revitalizing the Subject of Political Theory
8. In Transition, But to Where?: Winnicott, Integration, and Democratic Associations
David W. McIvor

9. Vanquishing the False Self: Winnicott, Critical Theory, and the Restoration of the Spontaneous Gesture
Amy Buzby

10. Adults in the Playground: Winnicott and Arendt on Politics and Playfulness
John LeJeune

Intersubjectivity, Justice, and Equality
11. D.W. Winnicott, Ethics, and Race: Psychoanalytic Thought and Racial Equality in the United States
Alex Zamalin

12. Winnicott at Work: Potential Space and the Facilitating Organization
Michael A. Diamond

13. Winnicott and the History of Welfare State Thought in Britain
Gal Gerson

14. Vulnerability, Dependence, Sovereignty, and Ego-Distortion Theory: Psychoanalyzing Political Behaviors in the Developing World
Robert C. Chalwell