In his 1967 talk to a group of British psychoanalysts, began with what can be thought of as an acknowledgment of his own act of destruction. By not correlating his work with that of others, Winnicott stated that not only may this have been annoying and rude, but also it may have isolated his writing and that “people have to do a lot of work to get at it” (p. 569). Such is the blessing and the curse of Winnicott's contributions. The difficulty oí getting at Winnicott goes a long way to explain