Winnicott, who had worked with*

evacuated children, made *much *

of the importance* of play*

and a ection in producing* a good* childhood*.

Classical*

Freudian thought pictured ****

Relations* between parent and*

child as fraught and full of conflict, *

seething with unconscious and barely* sup*- pressed sexual

longings and feelings. ***

By contrast, *Winnicott was

reassuring: *mothers (and parental figures in general) should be content to be ‘ordinarily devoted’ *and ‘good enough’, *rather...