pediatriden psikanalize, insan doğasından psikanalitik keşiflere*,**

In this article Winnicott's theory of development of the mother-infant pair into a mother and an infant was described in relation with his concepts, “holding”, “illusion”, “subjective object”, “capacity to be alone”, “true Self”, “false Self”, “disillusionment”, “transitional phenomenon”, “object usage” and their developmental tasks of each in this process. According to Winnicott, the infant can survive only within the envelope of maternal holding environment. The unit of psychological development in the beginning corresponds to the mother and the infant. The task of the holding period is to provide the illusion of the “subjective object”. This illusion provides the infant that internal reality and external reality are one and the same. By this illusion the infant is protected from the knowledge of separateness. With the internalization of the maternal holding environment, the infant is ready for disillusionment which occurs during the period characterized by transitional phenomenon. In this period while the infant develops the capacity to be alone, the role of the mother is to wean gradually the infant from the maternal provision of the holding environment. The next task is the development of the capacity to “use objects”. The role of mother is to be able to survive over time.