ABSTRACT
The creation of the transitional object is important: "not so much the object used as the use of the object". D. W. Winnicott alludes to the paradox involved in that use—a paradox, as he said, that has to be accepted, tolerated, and respected without forced attempts to solve it. The infant can employ a transitional object when the internal object is alive and real and good enough. The unconscious implies a reference to the negative, not only because it is not conscious but also because in Freud's descriptions, when he thinks of the relationship between two conscious representations in a free-association context, he has to postulate the existence of an unconscious thought or representation between them. Speaking of objects, we should not restrict ourselves to our relationships with existing objects, but we have to think also of the power of the human mind constantly creating new objects.
