D.W. Winnicott and Political Theory

Matthew H. Bowker is Clinical Assistant Professor of Humanities at Medaille College, USA. He is the author of several books in the field of psycho-politics, including: A Dangerous Place to Be (Forthcoming), Ideologies of Experience (2016), and Rethinking the Politics of Absurdity (2014). Amy Buzby is Associate Professor of Political Science at Arkansas State University, USA. She obtained her PhD in political science from Rutgers University, USA. Her published works include Subterranean Politics and Freud’s Legacy (2013) and Communicative Action (2010).

Chapter 1: IntroductionMatthew H. Bowker and Amy Buzby
Part I: The Subject’s Creation: Aggression, Isolation, and Destruction
Chapter 2: Being and Encountering: Movement and Aggression in WinnicottJeremy Elkins
Chapter 3: The Isolation of the True Self and the Problem of Impingement: Implications of Winnicott’s Theory for Social Connection and Political EngagementDavid P. Levine
Chapter 4: The Psychoanalytic Winnicott We Need Now: On the Way to a Real Ecological ThoughtMelissa A. Orlie
Part II: The Subject Faced with Deprivation and Disaster
Chapter 5: Playing `Riot’: Identity in Refuge — Absent Child Narratives in the 2013 Hindu Muslim Riots in Muzaffarnagar, IndiaZehra Mehdi
Chapter 6: Safety in Danger and Privacy in Privation: Ambivalent Fantasies of Natural States Invoked in Reaction to LossMatthew H. Bowker
Chapter 7: `Out Like a Lion’: Melancholia with Euripides and WinnicottBonnie Honig
Chapter 8: Forgiveness and Transitional ExperienceC. Fred Alford
Part III: Revitalizing the Subject of Political Theory
Chapter 9: In Transition, but to where?: Winnicott, Integration, and Democratic Associations David W. McIvor
Chapter 10: Vanquishing the False Self: Winnicott, Critical Theory and the Restoration of the Spontaneous GestureAmy Buzby
Chapter 11: Adults in the Playground: Winnicott and Arendt on Politics and PlayfulnessJohn LeJeune
Part IV: Inter-Subjectivity, Justice, and Equality
Chapter 12: D.W. Winnicott, Ethics, and Race: Psychoanalytic Thought and Racial Equality in the United StatesAlex Zamalin
Chapter 13: Winnicott at Work: Potential Space and the Facilitating OrganizationMichael A. Diamond
Chapter 14: Winnicott and the History of Welfare State Thought in BritainGal Gerson
Chapter 15: Vulnerability, Dependence, Sovereignty, and Ego-Distortion Theory: Psycho-Analyzing Political Behaviors in the Developing WorldRobert C. Chalwell