Ruthless Winnicott - 9781138345485

Taylor & Francis

Ruthless WinnicottThe role of ruthlessness in psychoanalysis and political protest\nAuthor(s): Sally Swartz\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138345485, 978-1138345485\nSynopsis\nRuthless Winnicott is an extended exploration of the role of ruthlessness in psychic development. That survival is of no use unless it is preceded by a ruthless attack is one of D. W. Winnicotts most resonant paradoxes. The book links this with the search for subjective freedom for those traumatized by colonialism, and in doing so draws on the work of Algerian psychiatrist and revolutionary psychoanalytic thinker Frantz Fanon.\n\nSally Swartz examines essential pieces of Winnicotts work on ruthlessness as central to the emergence of concern for the Other. She illustrates, with clinical examples, ways in which the ruthless use of the psychoanalytic psychotherapeutic space allows the patient either to enter fully into a process that allows .