This book explores the significance of psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott’s ideas for contemporary debates about care. In a world where care is in crisis, how might we theorise the conditions necessary for the development of caring subjectivities, and is it possible to infer a relationship between those conditions and progressive social change?
Dr Joanna Kellond is Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities and Social Science at the University of Brighton, UK, and a Founding Scholar of the British Psychoanalytic Council.
1. Introduction - Winnicott and the Politics of Care.- 2. Healthy Life: Care and Flourishing.- 3.Effacing Care, Denying Dependence.- 4. Caring for Others.- 5. Care, Power, Justice.- 6. Attacks on Holding.- 7. The Politics of Holding.
“The book as a whole is subtle, balanced, and informative. … Kellond’s contribution remains erudite, original and informative, a welcome and timely addition to the selection of works on the political impact of relations-based psychoanalysis.” (Gal Gerson, The European Legacy, Vol. 28 (6), 2023)
