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Winnicott, who died in 1971, produced the material in Volume 9 of the Collected Works in the shadow of his approaching death. After a lifetime of theoretical writing and clinical work, he finally felt liberated to unapologetically embrace his own creativity and imagination. There is a freedom in these late essays to more deeply engage with play itself as the very heart of the therapeutic endeavor. It is through play that personal meanings are generated; it is only through play that we come to know we are alive and authentic.
In his powerful and poetic voice, Ken Corbett extends Winnicott's transitional object concept and shows how it shepherds our terrifying entrance and exit from the human community. Winnicott's musings on the moon allowed him “the living of his dying”—the forging of meaning even as he approached a state of nonbeing that is literally unimaginable. It is the embrace of this kind of paradox that allowed Winnicott to enlarge psychoanalysis, enabling it to engage and assist patients who fear they have not yet begun to exist.
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