ABSTRACT
In spite of possessing marked aesthetic sensibility and writing with a poet’s feeling for words (Ogden 2001), Winnicott never developed a comprehensive theory of artistic creation. He was more interested in what he called the creativity of everyday life and how this related back to early experience. Nevertheless, a theory of art is implicit in his writings and it cries out for fuller development. In this paper I build on previous papers (Wright 1998, 2000) and make a further attempt to draw such a theory from his work.
