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- adjective Of or relating to Donald Winnicott (1896–1971), English
paediatrician andpsychoanalyst .
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Winnicott + -ian
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Disaster invokes a Winnicottian child who lives on in the wake of an anterior disaster — an uncertain death that has already happened.
The Ordinary Sky: Wordsworth, Blanchot, and the Writing of Disaster 2008
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(I'm still not entirely convinced by some Winnicottian ideal of healthy creative play: surely a modicum of unhealthy living and thinking is necessary to tap into some contemporary zeigtgeists.)
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