Question 2

I can see how Winnicott’s psychoanalytical view is developed. What I question is the strength or validity of the absolute need of the “good enough” mother as a source of the aesthetic sensibility in an individual, or perhaps I question more the certainty of pathology when the infant is weaned to soon, too late, or not at all.

At the start the adaptation has to be almost exact, and unless this is so, it is not possible for the infant to begin to develop a capacity to experience a relationship to external reality, or even to form a concept of external reality.

(Winnicott, 1971) p.11

What factors would lead you to agree or disagree with Winnicott’s view of the importance of the “good enough” mother?