Abstract

OLIVEIRA, Fátima Cristina Monteiro de. Thinking the analytic session as a potential space. J. psicanal. [online]. 2010, vol.43, n.78, pp. 99-116. ISSN 0103-5835.

The concepts of transitional objects, transitional phenomena and potential space in Winnicott are extremely fertile for thinking the necessary creativity for the analyzing of a patient. This article sought to address, in a winnicottian language, a clinical case of an 8 years old child. The work brings fragments of sessions in which the child made drawings that assisted approaching its psychic world. The creative movements, made possible through the sessions, took place within a potential space that allowed psychic development.

Keywords : Potential space; Play; Creativity; Psychoanalysis.

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