As relações objetais na teoria de D. W. Winnicott

Abstract

The purpose of this work was to present the Winnicott's concept of the object relationship and the evolution of these relations during a healthy maturation. Initially the central ideas about subject relation were presented by Freud, Klein, Fairbaim and Winnicott, showing the main difference between the ideas of these authors. Later on initiating from the theory of maturation , it was described the evolution of the object relationship along the life of a person, showing the role of the atmosphere in each stage because the concept of the object relationship is intimate linked to the atmosphere concept according to the Winnicott's theory. For the author, the maturation process impels the baby to integrate and to relate with the objects, but this only effectively occurs if the baby can count on a mother who introduces the world to him in a satisfactory way. These relations begin from the first theoretic breast feeding and it develops from the primary identification with the mother until the moment when the separate person starts to relate with more and more ample atmosphere like the family , the school, the society. Finally, it is approached to death subject which in Winnicott's theory represents the return to the not state