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For the last few years, and alongside my clinical practice, I have been working on a book-length manuscript titiled "Finding Winnicott." The text bridges the divide between two strains in psychoanalysis typically seen as antithetical to one another: the British object-relations school of Winnicott and his "middle group" and the French stream of theorizing typified by Deleuze & Guattari, deeply critical of Freud and yet thoroughly shaped by him. Key here is Winnicott's category of the found object and its associated ideas of play and transitional space which, curiously enough, find their echoes in Deleuze & Guattari's notions of desiring-machine, becoming, milieu.

The echoes between Winnicott and Deleuze & Guattari redefine psychoanalysis as a science of the in-between. This redefinition picks up on a tradition that extends back to ancient Rome with Galen (the neutrum as intermediate state between health and illness), through the Middle Ages with Bonaventure (the aevum as a time between the eternal and the worldly), and down to the 20th century with Freud (the interregnum as drive, dream, transference). In "Finding Winnicott," I develop these ideas and trace their clinical implications. The following parts are polished enough I am quite happy to forward you a copy should you want it: