Playing and Reality Revisited

Gennaro Saragnano, MD, is a member and former Secretary of the Italian Psychoanalytical Association and psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Rome. He was the Editor of the Bulletin of the Italian Psychoanalytical Association from 2000 to 2007. He served the International Psychoanalytical Association as a member of the Website Editorial Board from 2005 to 2009, and he has been a member of the Publications Committee of the International Psychoanalytical Association since 2009. He was appointed Chair of the Publications Committee during the Mexico City IPA Congress in August 2011. Christian Seulin is Training and Supervising Analyst of the Paris Psychoanalytical Society (SPP), member of the International Psychoanalytical Association. He is former Secretary of the Training Committee of the Lyon's Institute of the SPP and former Secretary of the Executive Council of the Training Commission of the SPP. Living and practising in Lyon, he is currently President of the Lyon's group of the SPP. He authored more than fifty articles and book's chapters and one book.

'Since Winnicotts initial formulation of the hypothesis on transitional objects and transitional phenomena - written in a deceptively simple style - attempts to unravel their theoretical complexity have at times overlooked the depth of his clinical insights. On the other hand, the poetical elan of his writing has led some critics to the mistaken idea that the radical transformative impact of his work in psychoanalytical clinical thinking implied a rupture with the fundamentals of Freudian metapsychology. The different points of view gathered in this important book avoid the dual risk of these Scylla and Charybdis. They provide the theoretically inclined reader with valuable working hypotheses to inquire into the metapsychological density of Winnicott's ideas, and the seasoned clinician with a renewed experience of the poetic potentialities of the psychoanalytic encounter.'- Max Hernandez, Member and Training Analyst of the Peruvian Psychoanalytic Society, member of the British Psychoanalytical Society, and former Vice-President of the International Psychoanalytical Association

• IPA Publications Committee , Introduction , Illusion in the origins of transitional phenomena and transitional objects 1 , Playing , Playing: listening to the enacted dimension of the analytic process , Creative processes and artistic creation , Genesis, primal scene, and self-engenderment , Creativity: a new paradigm for Freudian psychoanalysis , Further reflections on Winnicott’s last major theoretical achievement: from “Relating through identifications” to “The use of an object” , The use of an object: Winnicott and ternary thought , Thoughts on “Cultural experience and its location” , The mirror role of mother and family in child development: a reflection , Ruptures and reconnections: play as a thread for sewing up? , Mirroring, mirrors, and proto-oedipal constellations , Playing and Reality revisited: clinical practice with adolescents in the twenty-first century