Table Of ContentAFTER WINNICOTT
AFTER WINNICOTT
Compilation of Works
Based on the Life,
Work and Ideas of
D.W. Winnicott
Harry Karnac
First published in 2007 by
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CONTENTS
Foreword 1
Acknowledgements 7
Part I: Complete alphabetical listing 9
Part II: Complete listing in three sections 125
– Articles 125
– Books 184
– Reviews 231
FOREWORD
I am delighted to welcome and introduce Harry Karnac’s care-
ful bibliography of works to date that have made use of the
plethora of ideas introduced into the psychoanalytic lexicon by
Donald Woods Winnicott. This is the core work. All serious
Winnicott scholars will find it essential as a starting point for
reference. Since Winnicott’s ideas tangle with many other
fields, this compilation of references is the touchstone for many
others in whatever areas they are engaged.
Just as in his lifetime Winnicott regularly and frequently
spoke to enormous numbers of different, not only professional
audiences, so, after his death, his writings continue to engage
all manner of people. Winnicott’s work, no less than Freud’s,
has applications in, spans and influences ‘Nothing Short of
Everything’ as he wanted to title his autobiography.
Accordingly, his work has been discovered and influenced
people in many fields of human endeavour.
With due acknowledgement of the limitations and gains,
the interdisciplinary uses and cross-fertilization of psychoanal-
ysis is part of that to which Winnicott aspired no less than
Freud. This bibliography undoubtedly will require constant
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updating as the relevance and originality of Winnicott’s theo-
ries percolate through into the vast fields addressed in what
he referred to as ‘the rich collective storehouse of mankind.’
Articles, doctoral theses and books will continue to appear in
exponentially increasing accretions to this work. Here is evi-
dence that Winnicott is as important in applied psychoanalysis
and the humanities as is Freud. Political scientists, politicians
and policy makers all too often neglect papers such as
“Thoughts on the meaning of the word ’democracy’” (1951), or
‘The importance of the monarchy’ (1970), or educationalists
‘Sum: I AM’ (1968). Winnicott explicitly wished “to be more
correlated”, all too aware that this would have to be left to oth-
ers. (‘DWW on DWW’, 1967, Winnicott 1989, p. 573). We find
here just how deeply his skeins of thought have stimulated
and become interwoven into many explorative excursions of
commentary in the realms of understanding.
Harry Karnac produced in 1966 the first bibliography of
Winnicott’s own writings then available. It remains to date the
best we have until it will be superseded by one currently under
compilation by Dr Knud Hjulmand of Copenhagen University,
which will be included in the new edition of The Language of
Winnicottby Jan Abram. Everything is not yet available of the
work of a man who is undoubtedly amongst the most signifi-
cant heirs to the mantle of Freud and already Harry Karnac has
listed more than 1200 articles, books and reviews of relevant
derivative scholarship interest. Until the unopened archives
become available no final evaluation of Winnicott’s work will
be possible. Winnicott was a field scientist who noted down
and reflected on everything as he went along. The ‘thirty thou-
sand’ case studies [the number mentioned to me by Clare
Winnicott – perhaps a rhetorical number] in the Cornell
Medical School archives in New York contain important mate-
rial for additional Winnicott publications at a later date. He
constantly produced a spate of witty, pithy poems and doggerel,
composed songs, doodled, sketched and painted when not at
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his piano. There are volumes of yet to be published correspon-
dence.
Browsing one day in Harry Karnac’s Gloucester Road
bookshop, it was bibliophile Donald Winnicott who suggested
that he specialize in psychoanalytic books which, he tells me,
he agreed to do with considerable trepidation. Appropriately,
Harry ends his engaging personal memoir on Psychoanalytic
Bookselling (1991) with a pertinent anecdote about Winnicott’s
penchant for reading the beginnings of biographies. Only with
Harry who was familiar with Winnicott’s idiosyncratic reading
habits can I find confirmation of my suspicion that had he
lived to complete what was on his mind, he was planning and
preparing for a ‘Totem and Taboo’ - “Moses and Monotheism”
- like work in scope, looking at Female Goddesses.
Harry was never a bookseller unacquainted with the con-
tent of the works on his shelves, nor one disinterested in his
customers. Some of us were privileged to become his friends,
to enjoy his trenchant wit, and able to draw on his deep spe-
cialized knowledge in our field. Harry has always been as
decent and tactful a human being as one might hope to know,
a committed and thoughtful Socialist, a delightful raconteur.
One can argue with Harry and hold different views, but the
basic trust, affectionate bonding, banter and capacity for fun
will only be strengthened. It will be a rare psychoanalyst or
psychotherapist who will not be indebted to Harry for realiz-
ing the need for re-issues of certain classic psychoanalytic texts
that led him to found the Karnac Books publishing house, ini-
tially re-issuing various volumes in the appropriately-named
Maresfield imprint. On ‘retiring’ to pursue his transformed life
as a hard-working bibliographer, Harry sold Karnac Books to
Cesare Sacerdoti late in 1984, who opened the Finchley Road
shop in the following year.
The company today is owned by Oliver Rathbone, who has
effectively run the business for some years. Harry’s personal
touch, the hands-on know-how and ambience one encountered
