ABSTRACT
Winnicott introduced the concepts of transitional objects and transitional experience in reference to a particular developmental sequence. By ‘transition’ Winnicott meant an intermediate developmental phase between the psychic and external realities. In this ‘transitional space’ we can find the ‘transitional object’. When young children begin to separate the ‘me’ from the ‘not-me’ and evolve from complete dependence to a stage of relative independence, they use transitional objects. Infants see themselves and the mother as a whole. In this phase the mother ‘brings the world’ to the infant without delay, which gives them a ‘moment of illusion’, a belief that their own wish creates the object of their desire, bringing with it a sense of satisfaction. Winnicott calls this ‘subjective omnipotence’.
