ABSTRACT
Shortly before his death, Winnicott pleaded for a revolution in psychoanalysis: “I am asking for a kind of revolution in our work. Let us re-examine what we do” (Abram, 2013, pp. 313–314). His reasons for making such a proposal were clinical: “It may be that in dealing with the repressed unconscious we are colluding with the patient and the established defences.” We have to come to the conclusion, he adds, “that the common failure of many excellent analyses has to do with the patient’s dissociation hidden in material that is clearly related to repression taking place as a defence in a seemingly whole person” (Abram, 2013, pp. 313–314).
