Winnicott’s picture of healing involves creating conditions for a valued sense of continuity of being to grow. The therapist triggers a taste of unconscious boundless support, a generative boundless unknown accessed through the medium of a somewhat known personality. A continuity that survives discontinuity, perhaps not immediately , but in time, replenishing, returning. For Winnicott continuity-not discontinuity-is primary. He does not, as is fashionable, idealize discontinuity. If anything, he might idealize continuity, but it is within an overarching experience of the continuity of being, as core and background support, embracing disruption, that aloneness seeks the riches of life.
Eigen, Michael (2009-05-14). Flames from the Unconscious: Trauma, Madness, and Faith (p. 27). Karnac Books. Kindle Edition.
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