
Published online:
01 December 2016
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01 October 2016
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25 Review: Children in Distress: By Alec Clegg and Barbara Megson (Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1968)
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Chapter
38 Mirror-Role of Mother and Family in Child Development
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211–218
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Published:October 2016
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Winnicott, Donald W., 'Mirror-Role of Mother and Family in Child Development', in Lesley Caldwell, and Helen Taylor Robinson (eds), The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 8, 1967 - 1968 (New York , 2016; online edn, Oxford Academic, 1 Dec. 2016), https://doi.org/10.1093/med:psych/9780190271404.003.0038, accessed 17 Apr. 2025.
Abstract
In this paper, Winnicott takes the subject of the mother’s face for the baby as the precursor of the mirror in the child’s emotional development. He explores the normal and pathological aspect of this idea, also referring to the work of Lacan on ‘Le Stade du Miroir’. Winnicott writes that, if all goes well, the baby gets a reflection of himself and his state by looking at the mother’s face, and if he does not, the baby withdraws from exploring himself in the mother. Clinical cases are described.
Keywords:
Winnicott, psychoanalysis, mirror role, mother, baby, emotional development, normality, pathology, Lacan, Stade du Miroir
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Oxford Clinical Psychology
© The Winnicott Trust
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