While organizing a class on the work of Winnicott, these four psychoanalysts decided to use Winnicott's own technique. They played with his ideas and took pleasure in doing so. The theoretical/clinical experience evolved in all participants in a personal way. They found themselves thinking about their relationship to theories at different points in time. How does a theory emerge? What is their approach to an author and his/her theory? What relationship do they maintain with a theory and what use do they make of it? Finally, when thinking about how