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“Winnicott in America in the New Millenium: The Work of Thomas Ogden”

This 50-minute presentation is divided into two parts: firstly, I deal with how starting in 1979, Thomas Ogden interested himself in amalgamating the work of various British Object Relations theorists. From 1979 to 1994 – at which point he published one of his most famous papers, ‘The Analytic Third: Intersubjectivity and Clinical Facts’ – his work appeared to be that of a Kleinian-leaning American Independent. Less concerned with the tripartite theoretical and clinical divisions of the British Psychoanalytical Society, very much in the spirit of Winnicott in ‘Primitive Emotional Development,’ Ogden took a ‘pick and choose’ attitude towards those aspects of Klein and Winnicott that he slowly blended together into his own hybrid approach.

With this approach in hand, I then deal with some of the interpretive work Ogden did with some of D.W. Winnicott’s most iconic papers in the new Millenium: ‘Mind in Relation to the Psyche-Soma;’ ‘Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena;’ ‘Communicating and Not Communicating Leading to a Study of Certain Opposites;’ and ‘Use of an Object and Relating Through Identifications.’ The focus here will be on the distinctive way Ogden has read and made meaning of Winnicott’s papers.

Joseph Aguayo, Ph.D., is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of California and a Guest Member of the British Psychoanalytical Society. He holds Ph.D.s in both Clinical Psychology and European History from UCLA.

Dr. Aguayo has published four books on Bion’s work: W. R. Bion’s Clinical Seminars in Los Angeles (2013); Bion in Buenos Aires (2017); Introducing the Clinical Work of W.R. Bion (2023); and Bion in the Consulting Room: An Implicit Method of Clinical Inquiry (with Hinshelwood, Dermen and Abel-Hirsch).

His upcoming publication of which he is the editor, Winnicott in America (Oxford Univ. Press), is a collection of papers on the various presentations given by Winnicott in his visits to the United States in the 1960s.

Aguayo also founded and directs the Regional Bion Symposium, a consortium of North American analysts, who attend year-round online meetings on Bion, Winnicott, Klein and Post-Bionians. On July 4th, he gave a lecture on Bion’s Case of the Imaginary Twin at the London Institute; and on July 12th, he also gave the Debbie Bellman Memorial Lecture at the British Psychoanalytic Association in London on the topic of ‘Winnicott’s Relationship to the Work of Melanie Klein.’

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