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It is true, you are late as to the work schedule…But now you have finished loading the bags in the boot of the car, you have placed the child in the baby’s chair and you can finally start. You caress your child and… Good heavens, let us brake! You have forgotten on the bed his duck peluche, the bosom friend without which the tot does not fall asleep… Fortunately you are only one block from home, it will not be a big problem to go back to retrieve it! The psychoanalysis calls transitional object this soft companion that the child needs to keep in his hands to win his fears. Object with a calming effect, that is mainly used in times of separation from the mother, usually it has tactile-pressure characteristics: a teddy bear, a doll or even just a piece of cloth. Not whatever, but that teddy bear, that doll or that piece of cloth that the child has choosen from his surrounding and that has a very special meaning, clearly symbolic. The first to speak of transitional object is the psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott that has demonstrated the crucial role that this object has for the serene emotional development of the child. It precisely has the function to make atraumatic the transition between the subjective delirium of the first months, when the baby lives its surrounding as dependent from himself, and the acceptance of the objective reality of the world, which is other from himself. Phenomenon under the careful eyes of every parent, the need that children have to invent an object to overcome the fear of abandonment, find, thanks to the genius of Schulz’s pencil, the most symbolic representation in Linus’ blanket. To return then to our leaving family, given the importance for the child of the small, soft, transitional object, it will be wise to consider it as a fundamental to put in the suitcase. For the good sleep of the baby (and of the grown-up) and for a good holiday! Posted by arininchi 03/04/2008
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It is true, you are late as to the work schedule…




