A review by nura027
Playing and Reality by D.W. Winnicott

4.0

Decided to read this book after reading 'gender born gender made' by Diane Ehrensaft, so i went into it knowing that it's too academic for me and half of it will probably fly over my head , and i was right! The book is hard to read in general not just because of the terms, some ideas and examples make it very obvious that's it's been written decades ago and you better be well versed in psychoanalysis to understand it fully (which i am not). I personally dived into it to learn more about the true self, the false self, and individual creativity and....didn't really succeed, instead i learned new concepts as fantasying, creative living and living itself and of course playing. I feel acutely how little i managed to comprehend and grasp from it, yet i don't think i'll return to it any time soon, because i'm not a fan of psychoanalysis.