ABSTRACT
I do not think I am mistaken in thinking that D. W. Winnicott would have liked his writings and elaborations to form a possible basis for the creativity of analysts who refer to them. So I feel completely in tune with him in developing the way in which I draw on some of his intuitions to develop my own work. There are domains of clinical psychoanalysis where I still do not have the feeling that I have been able to rise to the level of his contribution; but there are others where I feel that, benefitting also from the contribution of Freud and of French psychoanalysis, I have been able to extend certain of his propositions in a way that has been useful to me in my clinical practice and in my understanding of certain pathologies of narcissism.
