Winnicott

• How does Winnicott see religious experience?

  Like a coping mechanism, we need illusions and imagination to deal with the real world
• Believes that children develop an emotional attachment to transitional objects such as a blanket and these change into imaginary things
• Imaginary attachments give comfort in unfamiliar situations, this is encouraged by adults to help children into adulthood
• Many adults cannot live without illusion and cant make a distinction between reality and imaginary
• Creates a psychological context of religion
• why is Winnicott against religious experience?

  Believes it is an illusion to help adults and children deal with the reality of the world, and imaginary object that we are attached to