Winnicott’s Relationship to the Work of Melanie Klein
The Debbie Bellman Memorial Lecture

Dr Joseph Aguayo, Psychoanalytic Center of California
Discussant Lesley Caldwell

Saturday 12th July, 11am – 3pm, lunch included

Hybrid meeting: 89 Prince of Wales Road, London NW5 3NT & Online via Zoom

The secondary literature on Winnicott's Kleinist contributions has been somewhat wanting: the Kleinian literature hardly exists, while the Winnicottian literature on his connection to Klein is wanting in a different way. Many Winnicottian contributors no sooner admit that Klein had a significant impact on Winnicott’s evolution as a psychoanalyst before whisking him away under the cover of his originality as a psychoanalytic pioneer. My paper accentuates what Winnicott specifically derived from his long-term collaboration with Klein by contextualizing their relationship—the emphasis here is on context, chronology and the evolution of clinical theory.

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