Any amputation is a physical and psychic reality that must be integrated into a new sense of self.
For Green, the analytic setting is in itself a recreation of psychic reality.
This approach shows a sophisticated understanding of the dialectical nature of psychic reality, but it is also rather confusing.
When people come together in groups there will be a resonance between their inner worlds, or individual psychic realities, and the reality they collectively make.
Boris was required to deal with provable facts rather than the intuitive or psychic realities.
It is not physical reality but psychic reality that counts.
Part of this know-nothingness is consistent with psychoanalysis' traditional focus on psychic reality.
And yet, at the core, it is reality, both psychic and physical, that prevails.
Psychoanalysts believe this was the discovery of psychic reality.
With "transition" Winnicott means an intermediate developmental phase between the psychic and external reality.