After Winnicott: Compilation of Works Based on the Life, Writings and Ideas of D.W. Winnicott PDF
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AFTER WINNICOTT AFTER WINNICOTT Compilation of Works Based on the Life, Work and Ideas of D.W. Winnicott Harry Karnac First published in 2007 by Karnac Books Ltd 118 Finchley Road, London NW3 5HT Copyright © 2007 by Harry Karnac All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data AC.I.P. for this book is available from the British Library ISBN-13: 978-1-85575-506-2 Typeset by Vikatan Publishing Solutions, Chennai, India Printed in Great Britain www.karnacbooks.com CONTENTS Foreword 1 Acknowledgements 7 Part I: Complete alphabetical listing 9 Part II: Complete listing in three sections 125 – Articles 125 – Books 184 – Reviews 231 FOREWORD I am delighted to welcome and introduce Harry Karnac’s care- ful bibliography of works to date that have made use of the plethora of ideas introduced into the psychoanalytic lexicon by Donald Woods Winnicott. This is the core work. All serious Winnicott scholars will find it essential as a starting point for reference. Since Winnicott’s ideas tangle with many other fields, this compilation of references is the touchstone for many others in whatever areas they are engaged. Just as in his lifetime Winnicott regularly and frequently spoke to enormous numbers of different, not only professional audiences, so, after his death, his writings continue to engage all manner of people. Winnicott’s work, no less than Freud’s, has applications in, spans and influences ‘Nothing Short of Everything’ as he wanted to title his autobiography. Accordingly, his work has been discovered and influenced people in many fields of human endeavour. With due acknowledgement of the limitations and gains, the interdisciplinary uses and cross-fertilization of psychoanal- ysis is part of that to which Winnicott aspired no less than Freud. This bibliography undoubtedly will require constant 1 2 FOREWORD updating as the relevance and originality of Winnicott’s theo- ries percolate through into the vast fields addressed in what he referred to as ‘the rich collective storehouse of mankind.’ Articles, doctoral theses and books will continue to appear in exponentially increasing accretions to this work. Here is evi- dence that Winnicott is as important in applied psychoanalysis and the humanities as is Freud. Political scientists, politicians and policy makers all too often neglect papers such as “Thoughts on the meaning of the word ’democracy’” (1951), or ‘The importance of the monarchy’ (1970), or educationalists ‘Sum: I AM’ (1968). Winnicott explicitly wished “to be more correlated”, all too aware that this would have to be left to oth- ers. (‘DWW on DWW’, 1967, Winnicott 1989, p. 573). We find here just how deeply his skeins of thought have stimulated and become interwoven into many explorative excursions of commentary in the realms of understanding. Harry Karnac produced in 1966 the first bibliography of Winnicott’s own writings then available. It remains to date the best we have until it will be superseded by one currently under compilation by Dr Knud Hjulmand of Copenhagen University, which will be included in the new edition of The Language of Winnicottby Jan Abram. Everything is not yet available of the work of a man who is undoubtedly amongst the most signifi- cant heirs to the mantle of Freud and already Harry Karnac has listed more than 1200 articles, books and reviews of relevant derivative scholarship interest. Until the unopened archives become available no final evaluation of Winnicott’s work will be possible. Winnicott was a field scientist who noted down and reflected on everything as he went along. The ‘thirty thou- sand’ case studies [the number mentioned to me by Clare Winnicott – perhaps a rhetorical number] in the Cornell Medical School archives in New York contain important mate- rial for additional Winnicott publications at a later date. He constantly produced a spate of witty, pithy poems and doggerel, composed songs, doodled, sketched and painted when not at FOREWORD 3 his piano. There are volumes of yet to be published correspon- dence. Browsing one day in Harry Karnac’s Gloucester Road bookshop, it was bibliophile Donald Winnicott who suggested that he specialize in psychoanalytic books which, he tells me, he agreed to do with considerable trepidation. Appropriately, Harry ends his engaging personal memoir on Psychoanalytic Bookselling (1991) with a pertinent anecdote about Winnicott’s penchant for reading the beginnings of biographies. Only with Harry who was familiar with Winnicott’s idiosyncratic reading habits can I find confirmation of my suspicion that had he lived to complete what was on his mind, he was planning and preparing for a ‘Totem and Taboo’ - “Moses and Monotheism” - like work in scope, looking at Female Goddesses. Harry was never a bookseller unacquainted with the con- tent of the works on his shelves, nor one disinterested in his customers. Some of us were privileged to become his friends, to enjoy his trenchant wit, and able to draw on his deep spe- cialized knowledge in our field. Harry has always been as decent and tactful a human being as one might hope to know, a committed and thoughtful Socialist, a delightful raconteur. One can argue with Harry and hold different views, but the basic trust, affectionate bonding, banter and capacity for fun will only be strengthened. It will be a rare psychoanalyst or psychotherapist who will not be indebted to Harry for realiz- ing the need for re-issues of certain classic psychoanalytic texts that led him to found the Karnac Books publishing house, ini- tially re-issuing various volumes in the appropriately-named Maresfield imprint. On ‘retiring’ to pursue his transformed life as a hard-working bibliographer, Harry sold Karnac Books to Cesare Sacerdoti late in 1984, who opened the Finchley Road shop in the following year. The company today is owned by Oliver Rathbone, who has effectively run the business for some years. Harry’s personal touch, the hands-on know-how and ambience one encountered
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