ABSTRACT
The order of the papers in Part II has been dictated by the need to bring together in an understandable and readable way the various facets of the whole statement about tht: antisocial tendency. Because destructiveness is so often a part of delinquent behaviour the section begins with two papers about the roots of aggression written for parents and others in charge of young children. The first, written in 1939, is a chapter in The Child Qnd the Family, now out of print; the second, written in 1964, replaced it in The Child, the Family Qnd the Outside World (Penguin Books). In both these papers aggression at root is seen as something inborn, co-existing with love. The first paper owes much to Melanie Klein, who pointed out (developing the ideas of Freud) that it is the elaboration o f the destructive urge in the inner world of the child that eventually turns into the wish to repair, to construct, to take responsibility. The second paper gives a more original account: aggressiveness at the beginning of life is equated with bodily movement and with the establishment of what is and what is not the self. Here emphasis is placed on playing and the use of symbols as a way of containing inner destructiveness - an idea which is foreshadowed in the talk in Part I entitled 'Home Again' . Winnicott came to see it as characteristic of the antisocial child that he has no area in the personality for playing: this is replaced by acting out. These and other aspects of destructiveness are discussed from different points of view in the hitherto unpublished paper 'Aggression, Guilt and Reparation' (1960) in Part II, and in 'Do Progressive Schools Give Too Much Freedom to the Child?' (1%5) in Part III.
