ABSTRACT
“It’s a duck’s foot,” said Iiro to the first “squiggle” Winnicott drew. “This came as a complete surprise to me,” wrote Winnicott, “and it was clear immediately that he wished to communicate with me on the subject of his disability,” that is, his own webbed fingers and toes. And Iiro went on to use the duck he had perceived to symbolize not only his webbed fingers, but himself as a boy who could swim but could not play horns and flutes.
