(Accepted for publication 3 January 2017)

On the 40th anniversary of its publication, the author re-reads Winnicott's The Piggle - a case of ‘on demand analysis’ with a child suffering from psychotic night terrors - in light of new information about the patient. Conversations between the author and ‘Gabrielle’ explore two areas not regarded as priorities by Winnicott: the transgenerational transmission of pathology/trauma, and the ways that language, in general - and given names, in particular - organize individual subjectivity. The question raised is to what degree Winnicott - who described the treatment as “psychoanalysis partagé [shared]” due to the parents’ involvement - thought of the pathology itself as ‘shared.’ The goal is not to supplant but to expand Winnicott's understanding of the case, borrowing insights from the work of Lacan and others.