A NOD TO WINNICOTT
Priscilla Alderson’s article on morality (Cradles of Morality, Issue 302) echoes the writings of Donald Winnicott (1896–1971), paediatrician and psychoanalyst, who wrote on the innate morality of infants and children.
I suspect that Ms Alderson is very well acquainted with his work, but Winnicott may not be so familiar to a wider readership. He would have agreed that morality protects the self in early childhood with its long dependence. He might have added (as he wrote in 1965): “Immorality for the infant is to comply at the expense of the personal way of life.”
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