 | James F. Masterson, Jacinta Lu Costello - Psychology - 1980 - 328 pages
...and gives a sense of a true self as the child begins to separate from the mother. Winnicott states: "The mother who is not good enough is not able to...so she repeatedly fails to meet the infant gesture, substituting her own which is to be given sense by the compliance of the infant. This compliance on... | |
 | James F. Masterson - Medical - 1981 - 262 pages
...and gives a sense of a true self as the infant begins to separate from the mother. Winnicott states: The mother who is not good enough is not able to implement...so she repeatedly fails to meet the infant gesture, substituting her own which is to be given sense by the compliance of the infant. This compliance on... | |
 | Harold Barrett - Social Science - 1991 - 222 pages
...infant's omnipotence." They repeatedly fail to "meet the infant gesture" and instead substitute their own gesture "which is to be given sense by the compliance of the infant." Winnicott called this the earliest stage of the false self: the self represented by the child's attempt... | |
 | Camille Roman, Suzanne Juhasz, Cristanne Miller - Fiction - 1994 - 492 pages
...make sense of it." This is what the good-enough mother does, but the mother who is not good enough "repeatedly fails to meet the infant gesture; instead...to be given sense by the compliance of the infant" ( The Maturational Processes and the Facilitating Environment, 145). Whereas much of Winnicott's work... | |
 | Henk Hillenaar, Walter Schönau - Law - 1994 - 276 pages
...origin in the mother's inability to sense her infant's needs. Instead of meeting the infant's gesture she substitutes her own gesture which is to be given...sense by the compliance of the infant. This compliance is the earliest stage of the False Self. A compliant False Self reacts to environmental demands in... | |
 | Walter Brueggemann - Religion - 2004 - 324 pages
...does not respond but takes initiative, and then the mother is experienced by the child as omnipotent The mother who is not good enough is not able to implement...she substitutes her own gesture which is to be given compliance by the infant. This compliance on the part of the infant is the earliest stage of the False... | |
 | Allen W. Johnson, Douglass Richard Price-Williams - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 364 pages
...infant's needs and sustaining the development of its True Self. By contrast, the "not good enough mother" is not able to implement the infant's omnipotence,...the mother's inability to sense her infant's needs (p. 145). . . . The True Self comes from the aliveness of the body tissues and the working of body-functions,... | |
 | Jon Mills, Janusz A. Polanowski - Philosophy - 1997 - 230 pages
...Dasein's ontological constitution of Being-with had been different. Winnicott supports this claim: "This compliance on the part of the infant is the...the mother's inability to sense her infant's needs" (p. 145) Under these circumstances, perhaps a false self is not false at all. The false structures... | |
 | Jeffrey Rubin - Psychology - 1998 - 276 pages
...the mother's implementation of the infant's omnipotent expressions. The mother who is not good-enough is not able to implement the infant's omnipotence, and so she repeatedly fails to meet the infant's gesture; instead she substitutes her own gesture which is to be given sense by the compliance... | |
 | Stephen Pattison - Religion - 2000 - 360 pages
...an infant has to modify its own feelings and needs to ensure the continued attention of its carer: The mother who is not good enough is not able to implement...the infant is the earliest stage of the False Self . . . (Richards 1996: 14; cf. Klein 1987: 2380".) Some infants develop a kind of compliant self to... | |
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The mother who is not good enough is not able to implement the infant's omnipotence, and so she repeatedly fails to meet the infant gesture, instead she substitutes her own gesture which is to be given sense by the compliance of the infant. 
