The importance of not being Ernest: An archaeology of child's play in Freud's writings (and some implications for psychoanalytic theory and practice).

In psychoanalysis, the question of child's play owes its fame to child psychoanalysts. Before the emergence of child psychoanalysis, however, Sigmund Freud had evoked the question of child's play in his works many times. Surprisingly, his views on play remain generally underestimated - with the notable exception of the famous "" game that, by irresistibly attracting innumerable comments to itself, has come to overshadow, in the author's view, the whole Freudian conception of play.

"Psychoanalysis ": Winnicott, , and the set-up of child analysis.

Forty years after its publication in 1977, has recently provoked new interest among researchers. Most notably, the real "Gabrielle" has shared her story with D. Luepnitz and the analytical community.

Winnicott's theory of playing: a reconsideration.

"Playing is itself a therapy," argues Winnicott, in one of the most famous phrases in the history of psychoanalysis. Despite its seductiveness, this paper suggests that this powerful proposition should be reconsidered. Winnicott's extraordinary ability to transmit his theory in jargon-free language should not conceal the singularity of his conception of playing.

Freudian modalities of disbelief.

This article can be characterized as a 'rediscovery' of a notion of psychoanalysis that had disappeared or had been confused by later operations. The authors explore a Freudian notion that has been unjustly misunderstood, especially because of the multiple ways in which 'Unglaube' - disbelief - has been translated. We shall establish the archaeology of this term in Freud by extracting its three significant modes.