Vanier Alain
University of Paris Diderot, Center for Research in Psychoanalysis, Medicine, and Society.
Psychoanal Q. 2012 Apr;81(2):279-303. doi: 10.1002/j.2167-4086.2012.tb00494.x.
Winnicott was able to say that Lacan's paper on the mirror stage "had certainly influenced" him, while Lacan argued that he found his object a in Winnicott's transitional object. By following the development of their personal relations, as well as of their theoretical discussions, it is possible to argue that this was a missed encounter--yet a happily missed one, since the misunderstandings of their theoretical exchanges allowed each of them to clarify concepts otherwise difficult to discern.
温尼科特能够说，拉康关于镜像阶段的论文“确实对”他产生了影响，而拉康则认为他在温尼科特的过渡性客体中找到了自己的客体a。通过追溯他们个人关系以及理论讨论的发展过程，可以认为这是一次失之交臂的相遇——然而却是一次令人愉快的失之交臂，因为他们理论交流中的误解让他们各自得以澄清那些原本难以辨明的概念。
