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).

Introduction .- Being and Encountering: Movement and Aggression in Winnicott .-  The Isolation of the True Self and the Problem of Impingement: Implications of Winnicott’s Theory for Social Connection and Political Engagement .- The Psychoanalytic Winnicott We Need Now: On the Way to a Real Ecological Thought .- Playing ‘Riot’: Identity in Refuge — Absent Child Narratives in the 2013 Hindu Muslim Riots in Muzaffarnagar, India .- Safety in Danger and Privacy in Privation: Ambivalent Fantasies of Natural States Invoked in Reaction to Loss .- ‘Out Like a Lion’: Melancholia with Euripides and Winnicott .- Forgiveness and Transitional Experience .- In Transition, but to where?: Winnicott, Integration, and Democratic Associations .- Vanquishing the False Self: Winnicott, Critical Theory and the Restoration of the Spontaneous Gesture .-  Adults in the Playground: Winnicott and Arendt on Politics and Playfulness .- D.W. Winnicott, Ethics, and Race: Psychoanalytic Thought and Racial Equality in the United States .- Winnicott at Work: Potential Space and the Facilitating Organization .- Winnicott and the History of Welfare State Thought in Britain .- Vulnerability, Dependence, Sovereignty, and Ego-Distortion Theory: Psycho-Analyzing Political Behaviors in the Developing World.