ABSTRACT
Play School was devised by Joy Whitby, the former producer of British Broadcasting Corporation radio’s Listen with Mother and, according to her; it came into existence as a direct response to concerns about the perceived poor standard of British pre-school education. The finding of a transitional object by the child indicates the beginnings of making a bridge between experiencing the world subjectively in terms of one’s own omnipotent phantasies and experiencing the world as “other” and outside one’s own omnipotence and omniscience. The chapter looks at Carl Jung’s theory of the “transcendent function” which predates the work of both W. Winnicott and C. Bollas and operates in a comparable psychological arena to the transitional process and “transformational object”. In fact the transitional object usually a favourite piece of blanket or soft toy that the child takes everywhere, relates to a developmental and creative process that occurs in an intermediary space between a mother and a baby.
