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... source. Donald Winnicott, Playing and Reality Play is almost synonymous with deconstructive thought. The in- augural text of deconstruction in America is Derrida’s “Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences.” The im- portance of play in Nietzsche’s thought needs...

... Winnicott, and others. Care also has been described as important to a specifically feminist ethics. Is care compatible with agonism? bh : Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics argued in favor of care, albeit in tension with rights, in a reading of Carol Gilligan’s In a Different Voice...

... of transference where, to say it with Winnicott, “the thing past can be experienced.”51 (In his paper “Fear of Breakdown,” Winnicott writes of the foundational function of transference in enabling a person to tra- verse an experience of the limit. To the space of transference he relates what he...

.... This privileging of hate will allow Winnicott to move beyond the “classical” post-Freudian doctrine according to which hate corresponds to aggressivity, fl attening the latter into the subject’s reaction to “the encounter with the reality principle.” In Freud, whose theory Winnicott...

... instruction, behind decon- structive irony and derision. Humanist culture is no longer what Winnicott calls our transitional space; it is no longer the air we breathe, the tissue that binds us across distance and social differ- ences; it is no longer the language in which our political confl icts take...