Abstract

PINHEIRO, Nadja Nara Barbosa. Destructive impulse and environment: Winnicott dialogues with Freud. Arq. bras. psicol. [online]. 2018, vol.70, n.1, pp. 291-304. ISSN 1809-5267.

In order to understand the theoretical trajectory that led Winnicott to open a dialogue with Freud, the article presents Winnicott's thinking on primitive emotional development, that must be understood as emerging from the negotiations stablished between baby's aggressive original impulse and the ways Environment holds it and permits that the process of differentiation between Me and Not-Me occurs, if the Environment survive from its own destruction. The article depicts that Winnicott enlaces the paradox destructivity/creativity to Freud's concept of Death Drive understood as the disintegrating principle necessary to psychic becoming. The (un)destructiveness of the Environment the author links to Freudian notions on father's presence as essential element to singularization process. As a conclusion, it proposes that there is a continuous/not/ continuous link between the two theories.

Keywords : Destructive impulse; Environment; Death drive; Father's function; Psychoanalysis.

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