In this chapter Elizabeth Sarah Coles reads Winnicott’s critique of the synthetic force of psychoanalytic interpretation alongside what she argues is a powerful alternate discourse on aesthetic relationship in his bestknown writings on creative and cultural experience. Testing the limits of two terms he puts to enigmatic use –‘finding’ and ‘creating’ – the chapter argues that Winnicott’s vindication of resistant, incomprehensible and dissatisfying objects in both early infant and adult cultural life, ...
In this chapter Elizabeth Sarah Coles reads Winnicott’s critique of the synthetic force of psychoanalytic interpretation alongside what she argues is a powerful alternate discourse on aesthetic relationship in his bestknown writings on creative and cultural experience. Testing the limits of two terms he puts to enigmatic use –‘finding’ and ‘creating’ – the chapter argues that Winnicott’s vindication of resistant, incomprehensible and dissatisfying objects in both early infant and adult cultural life, offers critical practice in the humanities – and critical readings of literature in particular – a curious and unexpected ally in its recent search for alternative approaches and forms of critical writing.
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