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Mirroring and Attunement: Self-Realization in Psychoanalysis and Art
Academic journal article from International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 92, No. 4
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Mirroring and Attunement: Self-Realization in Psychoanalysis and Art by Kenneth Wright Routledge, London and New York, 2009; 212 pp. £23.99 paperback
Kenneth Wright describes his first book since Vision and Separation (1991) as "an extended reflection on Winnicott's holding environment" (p.14). Maternal holding as the basis for the symbolic development on which self-realization depends is the lynchpin for his discussion of clinical psychoanalysis and of the place of art in human experience. The child's psychological development from dependence to separateness and individuation derives from the environment mother but Wright reads Winnicott's (1967) late paper on mirroring and the …
