Question 1

Winnicott’s idea of a transitional object or space lays the groundwork for the “seat of the imagination” or the basis or origin of aesthetic sensibility in this stage of human development. In supplemental reading, Ellen Handler Spitz expands this view and posits whether the transitional object can be considered prototypic of a work of art (page 67). How does this view of the “seat of imagination” fit with your own beliefs and experience?