Integração, personalização e realização: a teoria do desenvolvimento emocional de Winnicott

Abstract

This dissertation has the purpose of presenting some ideas about primitive emotional development. This was considered by Winnicott as the main point of hís work. Therefore, the concomitant stages the infant lives though his/her maturation process -· integration, personalízation and realization - will be presented here in such a way that we can demonstrate the importance they have in the infant's subjectivity constitution. The stage of integration is the principal aspect of the child development. That is the theme of the first chapter. In this initial part of the dissertation, we describe some of the theoretical principies that Winnicott associates to this proc.:ss: the necessity of a "good­ enough mother", the lheoretical existenre of a "non-primary integration", lhe unity mother­ child, the tendency to ego integration and the relevance of maternal care (holding). The personalízatíon stage is the theme of the second chapter. The topics mentioned here clarify how important hand/ing is to the development of the pshycossoma as well as to the capacity of "feeling yourself in your own body". Besides that, we present an articulation between Winnicott's ideas and psychomotricity. We end up whit a sample of a psychomotrícity practíce ,,ith pregnant women and some comments about a clinicai case. ln the third chapter, we write about the realization stage and its complex themes: lhe first theoretical breast feeding, the subject and objective objects, the transitíonal objects and phenomena, and the gradual delusion that is necessary for the infant to reach lhe "l am" phase. Finally we mention lhe idea that the tone relation between the molher and the baby - that was explained in chapter two - is the basis for the individual experience of self creativity and, consequently, for the construction of the feeling that life is worthwhile.