ABSTRACT

Underlying Winnicott's writing is a sense of balance and proportion—an aesthetic sense that often seems to take a visual form, just as his favorite method of communication in his work with children took a visual form in the Squiggle Game. From him therefore we borrow the concepts of boundary and space to give coherence to this last part of our essay, which touches upon some implications of his theory of development—implications for the individual and for the society in which the individual lives, which he maintains, and which he creates anew.