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The Object Relations Theories of Winnicott and Lacan

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In the preceding chapter, we very briefly introduced the notion of the charge of an image and its finding as situated at the interface between the familiar and the unfamiliar, the ordinary and the extraordinary. This raises the question of what in the image emits a charge for us: why this image and not that one.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Winnicott (1971).

  2. 2.

    Nussbaum (2001).

  3. 3.

    Giddens (1991).

  4. 4.

    Rudnytsky (1993).

  5. 5.

    Agamben (1993).

  6. 6.

    Townsend (2019).

  7. 7.

    Winnicott (1971, p. 144).

  8. 8.

    Lacan (2014, p. 311).

  9. 9.

    Winnicott (1971, p. 99).

  10. 10.

    Lacan (2014, p. 313).

  11. 11.

    Ibid., p. 317.

  12. 12.

    Ibid., p. 88.

  13. 13.

    Masschelein (2011).

  14. 14.

    Ibid.

  15. 15.

    Beardsworth (2004).

  16. 16.

    Ibid.

  17. 17.

    Combes (2013, p. 35).

  18. 18.

    Ibid.

  19. 19.

    Langeveld in Van Manen (2014).

  20. 20.

    Penelope, wife of Odysseus who, in his absence, avoided choosing one of the suitors that had taken up residence in her house, by weaving during the day and then unpicking it at night.

  21. 21.

    Agamben (2018).

  22. 22.

    Email sent on August 19, 2019.

  23. 23.

    Combes (2013, p. 37).

  24. 24.

    Ibid., p. 39.

  25. 25.

    Ibid., p. 41.

  26. 26.

    Michaud (2004).

  27. 27.

    Bersani (1986).

  28. 28.

    Agamben (2015).

  29. 29.

    Ibid., p. 43.

  30. 30.

    Lacan (2014, p. 136).

  31. 31.

    Lacan (2014, p. 136).

  32. 32.

    Bowie (1991, p. 109).

  33. 33.

    Winnicott (1971, p. 91).

  34. 34.

    Bowie (1991, p. 103).

  35. 35.

    Nussbaum (1986).

  36. 36.

    Ibid.

  37. 37.

    Case (2011).

  38. 38.

    Boothby (2001).

  39. 39.

    Bowien (1991, p. 103).

  40. 40.

    Ibid., p. 105.

  41. 41.

    Massumi (2019).

  42. 42.

    Ibid., p. 155.

  43. 43.

    Ibid.,p. 157.

  44. 44.

    Ibid., p. 159.

  45. 45.

    Ibid., p. 175.

  46. 46.

    Ibid., p. 130.

  47. 47.

    Logan (2002).

  48. 48.

    Ibid., p. 92.

  49. 49.

    Ibid., p. 130.

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Pigrum, D. (2021). The Object Relations Theories of Winnicott and Lacan. In: The Wall Beside the Work. Numanities - Arts and Humanities in Progress, vol 17. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71629-5_4

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