ABSTRACT
Carl Jung is a widely recognised name, perhaps most readily associated with his advocacy of reparative engagement with what he termed "the collective unconscious". As Winnicott's biographer Rodman notes in his chapter entitled "The ever deepening journey", which brings Winnicott into the last decade of his life: Between the end of 1962 and 1965, a number of topics emerge into view, showing Winnicott's formidable capacity to engage and grapple with new and surprising issues. Winnicott's shorthand for this combination was "mouth love": at first glance this might look like a sentimental version of what Kleinians might call oral sadism, but this would not do Winnicott justice. He is increasingly at pains to differentiate his particular position on destructiveness from either Freudian presumptions of the operation of the death instinct or Kleinian notions of primary envy. Winnicott wrote a poem during this period which poignantly expresses his own sense of childhood inhibition.
