Merleau-Ponty e Winnicott: intersubjetividade e psicanálise infantil

Abstract

ABSTRACT The new ontology or the "ontology of the flesh" as it is called, formulated by Merleau-Ponty, points largely to the important contribution of the psychoanalytic thought on the horizon of the phenomenology. Merleau-Ponty early on proved to be a big supporter of ideas of the orthodox psychoanalysts as Freud, Lacan and Melanie Klein, mainly because that movement sought to return the body its broadest sense, originating, moving away from purely mechanistic ideals prevailing over the philosophical tradition and in medical science, of Cartesian orientation. Regarding Winnicott, in turn, an eminent psychoanalyst, while having maintained close ties to his Orthodox precursors, went on to develop a very own and unique thinking. Despite the fact that they kept interlocutors in common, there is no more concrete evidence that Merleau-Ponty and Winnicott had known each other and even less had read each other s works; however, it does not cease to call attention the proximity and complementarity between the ideas developed by both. In this paper we investigate Winnicott s theory about child development and the importance of the relationship between the child and others (particularly the adult) regarding the emergence of a consciousness able to relate to the world in a healthy way. We understand that this issue, addressed by child s psychoanalysis, finds full resonance within the phenomenological debate about intersubjectivity, having as singular reference the figure of Merleau-Ponty.