Quotes from Donald Woods Winnicott

The precursor of the mirror is the mother's face.

Play like dreams serves the function of self realization.

We fight to exist. Personally, I am not ashamed of fighting to exist. We are doing no very extraordinary thing to fight simply because we do not wish to be enslaved or exterminated.

Creativity consists in maintaining a key aspect of the experience of childhood throughout one's life: the capacity to create and recreate the world. Creativity is the omnipotence of the child's mind.

Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.

Tell me what you fear and I will tell you what has happened to you.

It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in being creative that the individual discovers the self.

The most aggressive and therefore the most dangerous words in the languages of the world are to be found in the assertion I AM.

I don't mind saying in advance that in my opinion jealousy is normal and healthy. Jealousy arises out of the fact that children love. If they have no capacity to love, then they don't show jealousy.

Tell me what you fear and I will tell you what has happened to you.