Discussions from the New York City Launch of The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott, 12-Volume Set, Including Welcomes from Lesley Caldwell and Helen Taylor Robinson (Co-Editors of the Collected Works) and Angela Joyce (Chair of the Winnicott Trust); Remarks from Individual Volume Editors Vincenzo Bonaminio, Angela Joyce, and Arne Jemstedt; and an Appreciation for Elisabeth Young-Bruehl by Lesley Caldwell and Helen Taylor Robinson

Abstract

On January 19, 2017, the Editors of the The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott, 12-Volume Set, together with three volume editors of the Collected Works and the current Chair of the Winnicott Trust in London, spoke at the The Sándor Ferenczi Center at the New School for Social Research in celebration of the launch of this momentous publication. Their spoken remarks have been transcribed here for publication.

Notes

¹ Winnicott (2016g): “I believe Freud did not have a place in his topography of the mind for the experience of things cultural. He gave new value to inner psychic reality, and from this came a new value for things that are actual and truly external. Freud used the word ‘sublimation’ to point the way to a place where cultural experience is meaningful, but perhaps he did not get so far as to tell us where in the mind cultural experience is”(p. 409).

² Kenneth Robinson (Volume 1, 1911–1938), Christopher Reeves (Volume 2, 1939–1945), Vincenzo Bonaminio and Paolo Fabozzi (Volume 3, 1946–1951), Dominique Scarfone (Volume 4, 1952–1955), Jennifer Johns and Marcus Johns (Volume 5, 1955–1959), Angela Joyce (Volume 6, 1960–1963), Anna Ferruta (Volume 7, 1964–1966), Ann Horne (Volume 8, 1967–1968), Arne Jemstedt (Volume 9, 1969–1971), Marco Armellini (Volume 10, Therapeutic Consultations in Child Psychiatry), Steven Groarke (Volume 11, Human Nature and The Piggle), Robert Adès (Volume 12, Appendices and Bibliographies).

³ In the original presentation of these talks, this section, spoken by Helen Taylor Robinson, came at the opening of the proceedings.