Abstract

SILVA, Luan Sampaio  and  PEDROSO, Janari da Silva. Concern and the liquidity of human relations: a winnicottian reading. Estud. psicanal. [online]. 2023, n.59, pp.83-96.  Epub Feb 14, 2025. ISSN 0100-3437.  https://doi.org/10.5935/2175-3482.n59a09.

The article discusses the phenomenon of liquid modernity from the perspective of Winnicotfs theory of human maturation. For this, literary fragments and scenes from the homonymous film were analyzed: “We need to talk about Kevin”, focusing on Kevin’s relationship and his environment, to support the proposition that liquidity and the fragility of human social ties are a macrosocial phenomenon, composed of several microsocial phenomena that point to “environmental failures” in different spheres; but which, in a microsocial way, have their origins in the quality of the relationship between the caregiver-environment and the baby, in a specific primitive period of emotional development - stage of concern -, which compromises the acquisition of the ability to worry about the other.

Keywords : Winnicott; Bauman; Liquid modernity; Concern.

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