Ruthless Winnicott: The role of ruthlessness in psychoanalysis and political protest

Ruthless Winnicott- Front Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: ruthless Winnicott and the decolonial project
	Notes on patient confidentiality, clinical vignettes and terminology
	References
Chapter 1: We want to be eaten
	“Hullo object!” “I destroyed you.” “I love you.”The creation of externality
	Muddles
	Ruthlessness in the service of change
	His majesty and the mouse – the ruthlessness of entitlement and compliance
	Ruthless independence
	The ruthlessness of the fussy eater
	Absent-mindedness
	Ruthless attack
	Becoming orange peel: the therapist’s ruth and survival of ruthlessness
	Using ruth and ruthlessness in thinking diagnostically
	Note
	References
Chapter 2: Ruthlessness and idealization
	Idealization as a ruthless defence against taking in and being taken in
	The activist
	The stockbroker
	Matters of technique
	Inch by inch with the activist
	Sparring with the stockbroker
	Truth breaking in: the sad consequences of being real
	Notes
	References
Chapter 3: Having a good peep: false selves and use of
the therapeutic space
	False/secret
	Secrets, ruthlessness and ways beyond
	Tickets to the peep show: the curator
	The accountant
	Voyeurism and food
	Note
	References
Chapter 4: The weeping couch
	Turbulence and trouble
	Turbulence at the University of Cape Town
	Trouble
	Ruthlessness and rupture
	Conclusion: the weeping couch
	References
Chapter 5: Masks, slipping
	Being blown to smithereens
	The place of recognition in the colonial situation
	Winnicott, Fanon and survival
	The “primitive edge” of protest
	Seeing double and living through
	Note
	References
Chapter 6: Rhodes, falling
	Rhodes Must Fall
	Symbols are not the third
	Shackville
	Exhibiting #RMF
	Creating a third space: memory and art in question
	Repetition of trauma, ruthlessness and the idea of a university
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 7: Ruth and the missing middle
	Protests in bounded communities
	Constituting the missing middle
	Encounters
	Reflections on the middle as third
	Note
	References
Chapter 8: Decolonizing psychoanalysis
	Liable to inherit
	A colonial situation
	Centre and periphery
	Revisiting psychoanalytic universals: the “primitive”
	Revisiting psychoanalytic universals: the place of gender
	Conclusion
	References
Index