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Abstract
This paper compares the available versions of Winnicott's “ Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena,” the two published versions (1953/1958; 1971 and the original unpublished spoken presentation (1951). It looks at the different emphases in these versions and the omissions and additions across a twenty year period. It argues for considering both the transitional object itself and the concept of transitional space as equally important in the directions they open up for the psychoanalytic project in the postwar period and for the continuing implications of work in this field and its links with the acquisition of subjectivity, the development of the self and the place of creativity and play