ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on problems in H. Guntrip's relationship with Winnicott-Guntrip felt the stakes highest there. It tries to extend the meaning of Guntrip's hidden omnipotence, thus adding to H. T. Glatzer's and W. N. Evans's work. Glatzer and Evans suggest that Guntrip took control of the therapy situation, and, in effect, stayed out of therapeutic reach. In the first instance he structured the overall therapeutic situation by means of a self-determined goal-the lifting of his amnesia. Whatever the limitations of Guntrip's therapy, there also were genuine achievements. Glatzer and Evans argue that Guntrip's controllingness precluded any true acknowledgment of dependency. Guntrip and Glatzer and Evans agreed with D. W. Winnicott's observation that Guntrip did not have an Oedipus complex. It seems that an important part of Guntrip's missing rage must also relate to the absent father. A stronger paternal presence might have gone some way toward offsetting maternal trauma.
