Winnicott’s relationship to the work of M Klein
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Speaker: Dr Joseph Aguayo
Respondent: Lesley Caldwell
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.
Biographies:
Joseph Aguayo, PhD is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of California and a Guest Member of the British Psychoanalytical Society. He holds PhDs in both Clinical Psychology and European History from UCLA.
Dr. Aguayo has published four books on Bion’s work: W. R. Bion’s Clinical Seminars in Los Angeles (2013); Bion in Buenos Aires (2017); Introducing the Clinical Work of W.R. Bion (2023); and Bion in the Consulting Room: An Implicit Method Clinical Inquiry (with Hinshelwood, Dermen and Abel-Hirsch).
Aguayo also founded and directs the Regional Bion Symposium, a consortium of North American analysts, who attend year-round online meetings on Bion, Winnicott, Klein and Post-Bionians. Aguayo was invited to give a keynote paper on the case of the ‘Imaginary Twin’ at the British Society’s installation of a bust of W.R. Bion in London and in July he will present his paper on Bion’s method of clinical inquiry in his South American Clinical Seminars at the IPA Lisbon Congress.
Lesley Caldwell is Honorary Professor in the Psychoanalysis Unit at University College London, a Member, now retired, of the British Psychoanalytic Association (BPA) and a Clinical Associate of the British Psychoanalytical Society (BPAS). She is a European representative on the IPA board (2021-5), and currently the European representative on the IPA’s Executive Committee (2023-5). With Helen Taylor Robinson, she is joint general editor of The Complete Works of D.W. Winnicott (OUP 2016). She is a member of the editorial board of the IPA Women and Psychoanalysis (COWAP) book series and on the advisory board of the journal Rivista di psicoanalisi. Recent publications include papers on affect in the consulting room, Winnicott and the unconscious, transitional objects, Marion Milner, loneliness, silence as analytic communication, the dating of fear of breakdown, various contributions on Winnicott and Bion, and a book on the British Independents, published in Chinese in Beijing.
She is Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Italian Department at University College London, and has published on the Italian family, Italian cinema, and the city of Rome. She is currently working on Ten Moments that Shaped Rome, a book to be published by Cambridge University Press.
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