How certain themes assume an importance and develop at certain times often resonates with debates of the past and to encounter them in the present offers something new. This work proposes that using Winnicott's work to think about themes of importance to practitioners is also a way of thinking about some of the preoccupations of psychoanalysis.

This collection proposes that using Winnicott's work to think about themes of importance to practitioners now is also a way of thinking about some of the present preoccupations of psychoanalysis. How certain themes assume an importance and develop at certain times often resonates with debates of the past and to encounter them in the present almost always offer something new. Theoretical and clinical ideas are produced in particular conditions and often also in response to, or as part of, a certain intellectual and sociocultural context; how they have come to be understood and how they have their effect also involves that wider world and its interests.