ABSTRACT
In the Winnicott archives a set of unpublished notes stands as Winnicott’s final statement on his theory of aggression. Stimulated by this archive discovery Part One of this paper examines the notes associated with Winnicott’s theoretical advances in his late writings 1968–70. I suggest that Winnicott’s emphasis in the ‘survival of the object’ constitutes a clinical concept of aggression rooted in psychoanalytic methodology that contrasts with Freud’s speculative concept of the death instinct with its roots in biology. My conclusions in Part One set the foundations for Part Two.
